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ArticleNucleic acids research2009

Rfam: updates to the RNA families database.

Paul P Gardner, Jennifer Daub, John G Tate, Eric P Nawrocki, Diana L Kolbe, Stinus Lindgreen, Adam C Wilkinson, Robert D Finn, Sam Griffiths-Jones, Sean R Eddy and 1 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 557 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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557 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Paul P GardnerWellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK. pg5@sanger.ac.uk
Jennifer Daub
John G Tate
Eric P Nawrocki
Diana L Kolbe
Stinus Lindgreen
Adam C Wilkinson
Robert D Finn
Sam Griffiths-Jones
Sean R Eddy
Alex Bateman

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical InstituteWellcome Trust 077044
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rfam is a collection of RNA sequence families, represented by multiple sequence alignments and covariance models (CMs). The primary aim of Rfam is to annotate new members of known RNA families on nucleotide sequences, particularly complete genomes, using sensitive BLAST filters in combination with CMs. A minority of families with a very broad taxonomic range (e.g. tRNA and rRNA) provide the majority of the sequence annotations, whilst the majority of Rfam families (e.g. snoRNAs and miRNAs) have a limited taxonomic range and provide a limited number of annotations. Recent improvements to the website, methodologies and data used by Rfam are discussed. Rfam is freely available on the Web at http://rfam.sanger.ac.uk/and http://rfam.janelia.org/.

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Databases, Nucleic AcidComputer GraphicsInternetRNASequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, RNARNA

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PMID18953034
PMCPMC2686503

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