Finally, NCBI Genomes recognises Archaea*

I’ve been complaining about this for years. They fixed it. The NCBI have reorganised their genomes FTP site and finally, Archaea are not lumped in with Bacteria.

GenBank: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/genbank/archaea/
RefSeq: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/refseq/archaea/

Archaea are still included in the ASSEMBLY_BACTERIA directory; hopefully that’s next on the list.
[*] to be fair, they’ve always recognised Archaea – just not in a form that makes downloads convenientFiled under: bioinformatics, genomics, uncategorized Tagged: archaea, bacteria, ftp, genomes, ncbi

Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - August 26, 2014 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: nsaunders Tags: bioinformatics genomics archaea bacteria ftp genomes ncbi Source Type: blogs