Database Divisions and Homology Search Files: A Guide for the Perplexed

Table 1.

Database Divisions

Sequence division Database
Organismal
BCT Bacterial DDBJ, GenBank
PRO Prokaryotic EMBL
FUN Fungal EMBL
HUM Human DDBJ, EMBL
PRI Primate DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
ROD Rodent DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
MAM Other mammalian DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
VRT Other vertebrate DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
INV Invertebrate DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
PLN Plant DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
ORG Organelle EMBL
VRL Viral DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
PHG Phage DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
RNA Structural RNA DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
SYN Synthetic and chimeric DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
UNA Unannotated DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
Functional
EST Expressed sequence tag DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
STS Sequence tagged site DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
GSS Genome survey DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
HTG High-throughput genomic DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
PAT Patent DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
CON Virtual contigs of segmented sequences DDBJ, EMBL, GenBank
  • This division, which will appear in future database releases, is designed to contain instructions for assembly of segmented sequence records.

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