Rfam FTP Site ============= The following list describes a few of the important files on the Rfam `FTP site `_. Some of these files may be very large (of the order of several hundred megabytes). Please check the sizes before trying to download them over a slow connection. Documentation ------------- `README `_ Release Notes. `COPYING `_ Public Domain Information for Rfam. `USERMAN `_ A description of the Rfam flatfile formats. Sequences, Alignments, Models and Trees --------------------------------------- `Rfam.tar.gz `_ Rfam covariance models in ASCII INFERNAL format `Rfam.seed.gz `_ Annotated seed alignments in STOCKHOLM format `Rfam.seed_tree.tar.gz `_ Annotated tree files for each seed alignment `Rfam.full_region.gz `_ List of sequence regions making up the full family membership for each family `fasta_files `_ Directory containing the sequences for all significant hits per family Rfam database dumps ------------------- `database_files `_ Directory containing a MySQL dump of the Rfam database data, tables, and schema .. hint:: For direct access to the database, please visit :ref:`database:Public MySQL Database`