Table 1

Data sources included in Atlas.

Atlas Data Source Summary Table *

Data Source
URL
Data Format
Atlas Update
Update Mechanism

GenBank Sequence
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/ncbi-asn1/
ASN.1
Daily
Incremental
GenBank Sequence
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/ncbi-asn1/
ASN.1
Release
Reload
GenBank Refseq
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/refseq/
ASN.1
Daily
Incremental
GenBank Refseq
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/refseq/
ASN.1
Release
Reload
NCBI Taxonomy
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/
Delimited Text
Release
Reload
HomoloGene
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/HomoloGene/
Delimited Text
Daily
Reload
OMIM
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/repository/OMIM/
Delimited Text
Daily
Reload
Gene
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/gene/
Delimited Text
Daily
Reload
LocusLink
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/refseq/LocusLink/
Delimited Text
Daily
Reload
UniProt
ftp://ftp.uniprot.org/pub/databases/uniprot/knowledgebase/
XML
Bi-weekly
Reload
HPRD
http://www.hprd.org/download/
XML
Release
Reload
MINT
http://mint.bio.uniroma2.it/mint/
XML
Release
Reload
DIP
http://dip.doe-mbi.ucla.edu/dip/Download.cgi
XML
Release
Reload
BIND
ftp://ftp.blueprint.org/pub/BIND/current/bindflatfiles/bindindex/
Delimited Text
Release
Reload
GO
http://www.godatabase.org/dev/database/archive/latest/
MySQL dump
Release
Reload

* up-to-date information about data sources and statistics are available from the Atlas website http://bioinformatics.ubc.ca/atlas/

Shah et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2005 6:34   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-34