FlyBase:Using FTP Archives

This page will contain a help guide for using FTP archives.

FlyBase is no longer supporting the archive servers, which replicated the website as it existed at the time of archiving. However, all of the data behind every release is available at our FTP archives, which you can reach on the Archived Releases page, from the Downloads tab of the menu bar.

The FTP genomes archive link holds genomic sequence data from many Drosophilid species in GFF, GTF, and FASTA files formats. These are organized by species, so if you are interested in a particular non-melanogaster Drosophilid, this is the easiest way to find data specific to that species. Precomputed files were never made for non-melanogaster species, so they are not available here.

The FTP releases archive link holds data organized by release, for both D. melanogaster and non-melanogaster Drosophilids.

Between these two links, there are multiple redundant ways to reach the same file.