Pre‐built databases

Pre-sketched databases available for download below. All databases work from version 0.3.x onwards.

Example usage:

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/sylph-stuff/v0.3-200-gtdb-r214.syldb
sylph profile my_sample.sylsp v0.3-c200-gtdb-r214.syldb -t 30 > results.tsv

GTDB Databases

GTDB r220 database (113,104 species representative genomes) - 24th April, 2024

1. -c 200, more sensitive database (13.1 GB): https://storage.googleapis.com/sylph-stuff/gtdb-r220-c200-dbv1.syldb
2. -c 1000 more efficient, less sensitive database (2.6 GB): https://storage.googleapis.com/sylph-stuff/gtdb-r220-c1000-dbv1.syldb

GTDB r214 database (85,202 species representative genomes) - 28th April, 2023

1. -c 200, more sensitive database (10 GB): https://storage.googleapis.com/sylph-stuff/v0.3-c200-gtdb-r214.syldb
2. -c 1000 more efficient, less sensitive database (2 GB): https://storage.googleapis.com/sylph-stuff/v0.3-c1000-gtdb-r214.syldb

Other prokaryotic databases

1. OceanDNA catalogue of 8,466 ocean prokaryotic MAGs, -c 200 (800 MB): https://storage.googleapis.com/sylph-stuff/OceanDNA-c200-v0.3.syldb
2. SMAG catalogue of soil 21,077 soil MAGs, -c 200 (2.5 GB): https://storage.googleapis.com/sylph-stuff/SMAG-c200-v0.3.syldb
3. UHGG v2.0.1 catalogue of 289,232 gut genomes. Not dereplicated. Do not use for profiling. -c 200 (26 GB): https://storage.googleapis.com/sylph-stuff/uhgg_all_c200_v0.3.0.syldb.

Viral databases

Pre-sketched IMG/VR4 database for high-confidence vOTU representatives (2,917,516 viral genomes).

1. -c 200 (2GB): https://storage.googleapis.com/sylph-stuff/imgvr_c200_v0.3.0.syldb

Eukaryotic databases.

1. 558 representative RefSeq fungi genomes, -c 200 (700 MB): https://storage.googleapis.com/sylph-stuff/fungi-refseq-2023nov28-c200-v0.3.syldb
2. 713 TARA Oceans eukaryotic MAGs/SAGs from Delmont et al., -c 200 (900 MB): https://storage.googleapis.com/sylph-stuff/tara-eukmags-c200-v0.3.syldb

Taxonomy usage:

Some of the databases have associated taxonomies that sylph can utilize. See https://github.com/bluenote-1577/sylph-utils for more information.