Rfam FTP Site

The following list describes a few of the important files in 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 MYSQL dump of the the Rfam database data, tables and mysql database schema

Hint

For direct access to the database please visit Public MySQL Database