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Everything BioQ can search

22 datasets are live today, 10 are being indexed and 25 more wait in our archive. New layers go live as soon as they pass verification against their source.

22datasets live today
5.74Brecords in the largest table
10being indexed now
16layers added since 2026-10-20

Live datasets

UniProt TrEMBL

UniProt Consortium (EMBL-EBI / SIB / PIR)

Live

Fetch any unreviewed UniProt entry by accession (a first lookup can take about a minute), or count how many proteins an organism has.

149,430,635 protein entries from 215,741 organisms 40.6 GB compressed FASTA, read in place
/lookup/organism/whereis
Live since 2026-10-20

UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot

UniProt Consortium (EMBL-EBI / SIB / PIR)

Live

Paste a protein sequence and find similar reviewed proteins, with E-values and percent identity.

575,748 reviewed protein sequences 93.8 MB compressed FASTA; 2.94 GB search index
/search/search/result/whereis
Live since 2026-10-21

MGnify protein database

EMBL-EBI (MGnify) · 2026_07

Live

Retrieve any MGnify protein (MGYP ID) and its sequence, including ones outside the clustered representatives.

5,739,566,171 metagenome-derived protein sequences 1.11 TB Parquet, read in place
/lookup/whereis
Live since 2026-10-20

MGnify cluster representatives (30% identity)

EMBL-EBI (MGnify) · 2026_07

Live

Look up representative metagenomic proteins by ID; a miss falls through to the full MGnify set instead of reporting absence.

128,674,267 representative sequences of multi-member clusters 14.2 GB compressed FASTA; 24.33 GB lookup store
/lookup/whereis
Live since 2026-10-20

MGnify biome annotations

EMBL-EBI (MGnify); counts indexed by BioQ · 2026_07

Live

Ask how many protein clusters were found in soil, the human gut or any other biome, including its sub-biomes.

1,661,142,385 protein clusters across 187 biome categories 20.8 GB compressed source table
/biome
Live since 2026-10-22

MGnify protein co-occurrence index

BioQ, built from EMBL-EBI MGnify · 2026_07

Live

Find protein clusters that occur in the same metagenome assemblies as a cluster of interest, with their habitats.

5,739,566,171 protein-to-assembly records 26.17 GB index
/cooccur/neighbourhood
Live since 2026-10-20

MGnify gene neighbourhoods (contig positions)

BioQ, built from EMBL-EBI MGnify sequence metadata · 2026_07

Live

See which genes sit next to a metagenomic protein on its contig, with coordinates, strand and gap sizes.

177,896,636 gene placements on contigs from 51,037 assemblies 7.84 GB index
/synteny
Live since 2026-10-22

Pfam domain annotations of MGnify proteins

EMBL-EBI (MGnify, Pfam) · 2026_07

Live

List the Pfam domains of a metagenomic protein, or every protein that carries a given domain such as PF00078.

2,985,942,516 proteins with domains; 4,616,539,559 protein-domain pairs; 27,048 Pfam families 116.79 GB source table; 18.47 GB + 9.55 GB indexes
/domains/domain
Live since 2026-10-21

Unannotated MGnify protein families

BioQ, built from EMBL-EBI MGnify · 2026_07

Live

Find large protein families with no known domain, filter by biome and size, and see the annotated families they co-occur with.

5,890,193 clusters with 5 or more members and no Pfam domain 1.33 GB table (0.21 GB compact)
/unexplored/unexplored_with_known
Live since 2026-10-20

Protein Data Bank (PDB)

wwPDB / RCSB PDB

Live

Get the method, resolution, title and sequence of any PDB entry by its four-character code.

260,621 experimental structures (181,708 with a protein sequence) 92.62 GB mmCIF archive; 0.13 GB metadata index
/structure/whereis
Live since 2026-10-20

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (Swiss-Prot set)

Google DeepMind / EMBL-EBI · v4

Live

Check whether a Swiss-Prot protein has an AlphaFold model and how confident the prediction is.

542,378 predicted models with per-model confidence (pLDDT) 28.24 GB model archive
/structure
Live since 2026-10-20

ChEMBL

EMBL-EBI · 37

Live

List measured IC50, Ki, Kd or EC50 values for a target gene or a drug, with unit classes kept apart and the assay type on every row.

5,113,551 potency and affinity measurements (IC50, Ki, EC50, Kd and related) 30.5 GB source database
/affinity
Live since 2026-10-21

DrugCentral

DrugCentral (University of New Mexico)

Live

Find activity values of approved drugs against a target, side by side with ChEMBL and GtoPdb.

20,685 drug-target activity values 0.96 MB drug-target table
/affinity
Live since 2026-10-21

IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology (GtoPdb)

IUPHAR / BPS

Live

See expert-curated affinities for receptors, ion channels and enzymes by gene or ligand.

19,290 curated ligand-target affinity values (pKi, pKd, pIC50, pEC50) 7.6 MB interactions table
/affinity
Live since 2026-10-21

ClinVar

NCBI

Live

List the variants in a gene or genomic window, filter to pathogenic ones, and see review status; uncertain variants are never promoted.

4,594,764 variants with clinical significance and review status 200.4 MB compressed VCF
/variant/gene
Live since 2026-10-20

STRING

STRING consortium · v12.0

Live

List known and predicted interaction partners of a protein with STRING's combined score, by protein name or, for human, UniProt accession.

162,725,618 scored interaction rows (about 81.4 million protein pairs) across 21 species 0.95 GB source files; 1.19 GB index
/interaction
Live since 2026-10-22

BioGRID

BioGRID · 4.4.248

Live

Find experimentally reported physical and genetic interactions for a gene, with the experimental system and PubMed ID.

2,804,534 interaction records (1,917,989 physical, 886,545 genetic) 174.7 MB compressed (1.50 GB uncompressed)
/interaction
Live since 2026-10-22

DepMap CRISPR gene effect

Broad Institute (DepMap) · 24Q4

Live

Ask which cancer lineages depend on a gene, or which genes a lineage depends on, with mutation context.

17,916 genes x 1,178 cancer cell lines in 30 lineages (Chronos), plus 70,738 high-impact mutations 428.7 MB source matrix; 0.10 GB index
/depmap
Live since 2026-10-22

DepMap expression and copy number

Broad Institute (DepMap) · 24Q4

Live

Compare a gene's expression or copy number across cancer cell lines and lineages.

Expression: 19,193 genes x 1,673 cell lines; copy number: 36,700 genes x 1,607 cell lines 506.6 MB + 238.8 MB source matrices; 0.45 GB index
/omics
Live since 2026-10-22

Human reference genome GRCh38

Genome Reference Consortium (Ensembl primary assembly) · GRCh38

Live

Read the exact DNA sequence of any human region, for example chr11:1000000-1000100.

194 sequences, 3,099,750,718 bases 882 MB compressed FASTA
/dna
Live since 2026-10-20

NCBI RefSeq genomes

NCBI

Live

Read any region of an archaeal, fungal, protist, mitochondrial or viral RefSeq sequence by accession and coordinates.

546,296 sequences, 36.82 billion bases (archaea, fungi, mitochondria, protozoa, viruses); served with the mouse genome as 544,891 unique accessions 11.10 GB compressed FASTA; 12.18 GB coordinate index (shared with the mouse genome)
/dna
Live since 2026-10-22

Mouse reference genome GRCm39

Genome Reference Consortium (Ensembl) · GRCm39

Live

Read the DNA sequence of any mouse genomic region.

61 sequences, 2,728,222,451 bases 806 MB compressed FASTA
/dna
Live since 2026-10-22

Growing every week

Each layer goes live only after it answers a real question with a known answer and matches its source.

Recently added

BioQ opens to the public at bioq.bio, with 20 of 22 engine layers answering.

UniProt TrEMBL lookups reach full coverage: all 149,430,635 entries.

DNA region reads extend to NCBI RefSeq genomes (archaea, fungi, mitochondria, protozoa, viruses) and the mouse genome GRCm39.

Gene neighbourhoods on MGnify contigs go live (177.9 million gene placements).

DepMap 24Q4 gene dependency, expression and copy-number queries go live.

STRING v12.0 and BioGRID 4.4.248 interaction lookups go live.

Protein-to-domain lookup for 2.99 billion MGnify proteins goes live.

Organism counts across UniProt TrEMBL and MGnify biome counts go live.

Binding-affinity search over ChEMBL 37, DrugCentral and GtoPdb goes live (5.15 million measurements).

Sequence similarity search against UniProt Swiss-Prot goes live.

Domain-to-protein search across Pfam annotations of MGnify proteins goes live.

MGnify co-occurrence index completed and served: 5.74 billion records.

ClinVar variant lookup and the catalogue of unannotated protein families go live.

Human genome GRCh38 region reads go live.

PDB and AlphaFold structure lookup goes live.

First engine: MGnify protein and representative-sequence lookup, and UniProt TrEMBL ID lookup.

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Being indexed now

Built or partly built, and not answering yet. Each one goes live after verification.

Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC1 and GDSC2)

Wellcome Sanger Institute · 8.4 (fitted data dated 24 Jul 2022)

Indexing

Ask how sensitive cancer cell lines are to a drug (ln IC50 in uM, AUC), per GDSC dataset.

575,197 fitted dose-response curves over 978 cell lines and 542 drugs 2.99 GB source files
Live since 2026-10-22

Exact-sequence index of MGnify representatives

BioQ, built from EMBL-EBI MGnify · 2026_07

Indexing

Check whether an exact protein sequence is already present among MGnify representatives.

128,674,267 sequence fingerprints 2.06 GB index
Live since 2026-10-22

Cross-kingdom protein search set

BioQ, from UniProt Swiss-Prot, Ensembl / Ensembl Genomes proteomes and MGnify

Indexing

Find homologs of a protein across bacteria, archaea, plants, fungi and animals, beyond Swiss-Prot.

about 33.45 million protein sequences 18.90 GB search database
Live since 2026-10-20

UniRef90

UniProt Consortium (EMBL-EBI / SIB / PIR)

Indexing

Search a protein sequence against all of UniProt at 90% redundancy.

121,494,192 sequence clusters at 90% identity 32.11 GB compressed FASTA; 70.21 GB search database
Live since 2026-10-20

ChEMBL 37 affinity extension

EMBL-EBI · 37

Indexing

Adds ChEMBL binding values reported in ug/mL (converted with each compound's molecular weight) and rows ChEMBL flags as non-standard.

5,254,446 measurements in the extended index (100,920 more than the live one)
Live since 2026-10-22

ChEMBL 37 molecule-target map

EMBL-EBI · 37

Indexing

List every target a ChEMBL molecule has activity against, or every molecule tested on a target.

14,341,736 molecule-target links (2,815,609 molecules, 18,552 targets) 2.41 GB index
Live since 2026-10-20

InterPro-Pfam mapping

EMBL-EBI (InterPro)

Indexing

Translate Pfam domain hits into InterPro entries and their descriptions.

InterPro entries mapped to Pfam families (count not recorded) 0.02 GB index (43.2 MB InterPro XML source)
Live since 2026-10-22

MGnify biome-to-cluster lists

BioQ, built from EMBL-EBI MGnify · 2026_07

Indexing

Return the full list of cluster IDs found in a biome, not just a sample.

partial build 0.01 GB (partial)
Live since 2026-10-20

Protein language-model embeddings of Swiss-Prot (ESM-2, pilot)

BioQ, computed from UniProt Swiss-Prot with ESM-2 650M

Indexing

Find remote homologs that alignment search misses, by embedding similarity.

575,748 sequences x 1,280 dimensions 1.47 GB vectors
Live since 2026-10-23

DepMap cell-line expression embedding (pilot)

BioQ, computed from DepMap 24Q4 expression · 24Q4

Indexing

Find the cancer cell lines whose expression profile is closest to a given line.

1,673 cell lines x 50 dimensions 167 KB vectors
Live since 2026-10-23

In our archive, next in line

Already downloaded and checksummed. Indexing order follows what researchers ask for.

BindingDB

BindingDB · 202610

In archive

Will add about 1.59 million non-ChEMBL binding measurements to affinity queries.

3,243,660 ligand-target records (Ki, IC50, Kd, EC50) 0.59 GB compressed

LINCS L1000 (CMap)

LINCS / Broad Institute · GEO GSE92742 + GSE70138

In archive

Not yet searchable; would let you ask which compounds reverse or mimic an expression signature.

591,697 consensus signatures (473,647 + 118,050) over 12,328 genes 94.07 GB

GTEx

GTEx Consortium · v10

In archive

Not yet searchable; would answer where in the healthy body a gene is expressed.

gene and transcript expression, splice junctions and QTL sets across human tissues 23.14 GB

TCGA pan-cancer RNA-seq (Toil/Xena)

NCI TCGA via UCSC Xena

In archive

Not yet searchable; would compare a gene's expression across tumour types.

gene x tumour-sample expression matrix (RSEM, HUGO-normalised counts) 0.94 GB compressed

DepMap somatic mutations (full table)

Broad Institute (DepMap) · 24Q4

In archive

Not yet searchable in full; would list every mutation in a cell line or gene.

718,369 variant rows x 70 columns 339 MB

PRISM Repurposing screen

Broad Institute · 19Q4

In archive

Not yet searchable; would show which cancer lines a non-oncology drug kills.

primary log-fold-change matrix and secondary dose-response curve parameters 0.31 GB

Cancer Therapeutics Response Portal (CTRP)

Broad Institute · v1.0, v2.0, v2.1, v2.2

In archive

Not yet searchable; would compare drug sensitivity with GDSC and PRISM.

four published releases of cell-line small-molecule sensitivity 0.62 GB

NCI-60 (DTP and CellMiner)

NCI Developmental Therapeutics Program

In archive

Not yet searchable; would show the NCI-60 activity pattern of a compound.

growth-inhibition dose response, compound structures and cell-line expression 1.75 GB

PubChem compound identifiers

NCBI

In archive

Not yet searchable; would resolve compound names and structures to PubChem IDs.

CID to InChIKey, SMILES, synonyms, IUPAC names and patents 27.24 GB

MGnify cluster representatives (90% identity)

EMBL-EBI (MGnify) · 2026_07

In archive

Not yet searchable by sequence similarity.

about 1.66 billion representative sequences 168.16 GB compressed FASTA

UniRef50

UniProt Consortium (EMBL-EBI / SIB / PIR)

In archive

Not yet searchable.

UniProt clustered at 50% identity 8.78 GB compressed FASTA

Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes

EMBL-EBI (Ensembl) · Ensembl 116; Ensembl Genomes 63

In archive

Not yet searchable on its own (parts feed the cross-kingdom search set being indexed).

peptide sets for 1,881 organisms, plus annotation for six model species 18.14 GB

ClinicalTrials.gov

U.S. National Library of Medicine

In archive

Not yet searchable; would list trials for a drug or target.

607,349 registered studies 2.17 GB

Open Targets (drug subset)

Open Targets

In archive

Not yet searchable; would give the mechanism of action of a drug.

drug molecules, mechanisms of action and chemical probes 7.2 MB

Tibetan Plateau microbial genomes (TPMC)

TPMC authors (Nature Communications, 2024)

In archive

Not yet searchable.

32,355 metagenome-assembled genomes 24.78 GB

Oral phage database (OPD)

China National GeneBank (CNGB)

In archive

Not yet searchable.

189,859 phage sequences 2.34 GB

Chinese gut virome catalogue (cnGVC)

cnGVC authors (Zenodo record 14671177) · Zenodo 14671177

In archive

Not yet searchable.

93,462 viral genomes (vOTUs) 1.06 GB

NCBI RefSeq proteins

NCBI

In archive

Not yet searchable.

protein FASTA for archaea, fungi, mitochondria, protozoa and viruses 3.55 GB

GENCODE

GENCODE consortium · v47

In archive

Not yet searchable.

human transcript sequences and the GRCh38 primary assembly 0.95 GB

Pfam-A HMM library

EMBL-EBI (InterPro / Pfam)

In archive

Not yet searchable.

profile HMMs for Pfam-A families 0.42 GB

eggNOG orthology HMMs

eggNOG

In archive

Not yet searchable.

orthologous-group profile HMMs 2.97 GB

Human Protein Atlas

Human Protein Atlas

In archive

Not yet searchable.

gene-level summary table 7.5 MB

Cellosaurus

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

In archive

Not yet searchable.

full cell-line knowledge base 122 MB

Gene Ontology and human GO annotations

Gene Ontology Consortium

In archive

Not yet searchable.

GO basic ontology and human GOA annotation file 20 MB

Drug Repurposing Hub

Broad Institute · 2020-03-24

In archive

Not yet searchable.

drug and sample annotation tables 3.0 MB

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