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
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 Public MySQL Database