Reference databases for mNGS projects

Collection of reference databases for metagenomic NGS projects. For more info please see https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/projects/lazypipe Database: NCBI nt archaeal, bacterial and virus sequences. File: 2023_01_01.nt_abv.tar.gz Composition: by accession: ar(14,297) + ba(540,016) + vi(235,395) 16,842,845 sequences 356,180,464,604 bp Updated: 2023/01/01 Database: NCBI GeneBank Viruses Complete genomes 2023_01_01 86,641 sequences; 2,391,589,518 total bases Date: Jan 1, 2023 4:32 PM BLASTDB Version: 5 Database: NCBI GeneBank Viruses Complete genomes 2022_11_04 86,352 sequences; 2,371,168,247 total bases Date: Nov 4, 2022 5:03 PM BLASTDB Version: 5 Citing: Ilya Plyusnin, Ravi Kant, Anne J. Jaaskelainen, Tarja Sironen, Liisa Holm, Olli Vapalahti, Teemu Smura. (2020) Novel NGS Pipeline for Virus Discovery from a Wide Spectrum of Hosts and Sample Types. Virus Evolution, veaa091, https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veaa091.