Scientific Database List

This page provides a list of the scientific database available at OSC. 

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BLAST Database

 

OSC periodically updates The NCBI BLAST database. 

Versions

BLAST database is available on the Owens and Pitzer clusters. The versions currently available at OSC are:

Version Owens Pitzer
2017-03 X  
2017-10 X*  
2018-08 X X*
2019-09 X X
2020-04 X X
2021-5 X X
* Current default version

The version indicates the date of download. You can usemodule spider blast-database​ to view available modules for a given machine. Feel free to contact OSC Help if you need other versions for your work.

Access

BLAST database is available to all OSC users. If you have any questions, please contact OSC Help.

Usage

BLAST database can be accessed with the following module:

module load blast-database/version

To list all the BLAST database available

module spider blast-database

BLAST database can be accessed by the environmental variable BLASTDB. For blast-database/2018-08, it is as follows

BLASTDB=/fs/project/pub_data/blast-database/2018-08

Further Reading

BLAST package: https://www.osc.edu/resources/available_software/software_list/blast

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Microbial Genomes Database

Microbial Genomes is a database of prokaryotic genome sequencing project data. 

Availability and Restrictions

Versions

Microbial Genomes is available on the Owens cluster. The versions currently available at OSC are:

Version Owens
2017-11 X*
* Current default version

The version indicates the date of the installation. You can use module spider microbial-database to view available modules for a given machine. Feel free to contact OSC Help if you need other versions for your work.

Access

Microbial Genomes is available to all OSC users. If you have any questions, please contact OSC Help.

Usage

Usage on Owens

Set-up

To configure your enviorment for use of TrimGalore, use command module load microbial-database. This will load the default version.

The database can be accessed by the environment variable MICROBIALDB, for example

 >> ls $MICROBIALDB
Archaea_Genome  Bacteria_Genome  Fungi_Genome  Protozoa_Genome  Virus_Genome

Further Reading

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