Table 1

Description of databases used for similarity searches.

Source

Tier*

Database

Link

ribosomal RNA

1

RBP II

http://rdp.cme.msu.edu webcite

mitochondrial proteins

2

NCBI

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/db/ webcite

protein sequences

3

SwissProt/TrEMBL

http://ca.expasy.org/sprot/ webcite

*the stage in which the database is used in prot4EST pipeline (see Figure 2).

Wasmuth and Blaxter BMC Bioinformatics 2004 5:187   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-5-187