<p>Do you know any <strong>public</strong> scientific SQL server ?</p>

<p>for example, I would cite:</p>

<ul>
<li>UCSC    <a href='http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQdownloads#download29'>http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQdownloads#download29</a></li>
<li>ENSEMBL    <a href='http://uswest.ensembl.org/info/data/mysql.html'>http://uswest.ensembl.org/info/data/mysql.html</a></li>
<li>GO    <a href='http://www.geneontology.org/GO.database.shtml#mirrors'>http://www.geneontology.org/GO.database.shtml#mirrors</a></li>
</ul>

<p>(I'll give a +1 to each correct answer)</p>

<p><a href='http://unison-db.org/'>http://unison-db.org/</a></p>

<p>Unison is a comprehensive set of protein sequences with <em>lots</em> of precomputed results of many types.  Unison was designed primarily for rapid mining of complex combinations of protein features. There's a simple homology-based structure viewer that can map SNPs and arbitrary regions onto structures.</p>

<p>The Unison source and website were released under the Academic Free License, and the data are released under the Creative Commons. There's a public PostgreSQL service (Try 'psql -h unison-db.org -U PUBLIC -d unison'). Command line tools are available. Loading and computing are automated and incremental, and coordinated by a makefile.</p>

<p>See <a href='http://unison-db.org/tour/'>http://unison-db.org/tour/</a> and <a href='http://unison-db.org/doc/'>http://unison-db.org/doc/</a> for examples and connection information. </p>

<p>The site is currently hosted at Genentech, my former employer. Unison is used internally at Genentech, but not updated as often as I used to (but there's a page with versions of source databases). </p>

<p>-Reece</p>
