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 Public MySQL Database