4.3 Info

The 'Info' command lists the common databases used by NCBI Blast server. Sample output from this command is given below for reference. In the list 'TRUE' = protein, and 'FALSE' = nucleotide.

<!- QBlastInfoBegin

Status=INFO_DB

# Number of databases 23

# exlclusive databases

nr 1 TRUE

nr 2 FALSE

est_human 3 FALSE

est_mouse 4 FALSE

est_others 5 FALSE

htg 6 FALSE

gss 7 FALSE

sts 8 FALSE

pataa 9 TRUE

patnt 10 FALSE

# non-exlclusive databases

swissprot 11 TRUE

est 12 FALSE

pdb 13 TRUE

pdb 14 FALSE

month 15 TRUE

month.nt 16 FALSE

month.est 17 FALSE

month.gss 18 FALSE

month.htgs 19 FALSE

month.sts 20 FALSE

month.pataa 21 TRUE

month.patnt 22 FALSE

# new

chromosome 23 TRUE

# end of the file

QBlastInfoEnd ->

The above list does not include the extensive collection of specialized BLAST databases available through NCBI, such as those accessible from specific genome blast pages or trace blast pages. For information on those databases, see this web page:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/staff/tao/URLAPI/remote_blastdblist.html