Genomics NCD-gzip database

This is a basic database consisting of 4634 genomes sampled from the RefSeq database using the Woltka pipelin. It is intended for testing and evaluation of metagenomic classification tools. 

Contents

• The genome sequences are provided in a compressed archive (genomes.tar.gz).

• When unpacked, the folder structure is organized by NCBI Taxonomy ID (taxid), like so:

Each top-level directory corresponds to a taxonomic ID and contains one or more genome FASTA files in .fna format.

Additional Files

• fold1_list.txt and fold1_testing_list.txt: Lists of genome TaxIDs used for training and testing, respectively. These are included to support reproducible benchmarking of metagenomic classifiers.