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ArticleNucleic acids research2021

Rfam 14: expanded coverage of metagenomic, viral and microRNA families.

Ioanna Kalvari, Eric P Nawrocki, Nancy Ontiveros-Palacios, Joanna Argasinska, Kevin Lamkiewicz, Manja Marz, Sam Griffiths-Jones, Claire Toffano-Nioche, Daniel Gautheret, Zasha Weinberg and 5 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 656 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Ioanna KalvariEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Eric P NawrockiNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Nancy Ontiveros-PalaciosEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Joanna ArgasinskaEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Kevin LamkiewiczRNA Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Analysis, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Leutragraben 1, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Manja MarzRNA Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Analysis, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Leutragraben 1, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Sam Griffiths-JonesFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK.
Claire Toffano-NiocheUniversité Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Daniel GautheretUniversité Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Zasha WeinbergBioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science and Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics, Leipzig University, 04107 Leipzig, Germany.
Elena RivasDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Sean R EddyDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Robert D FinnEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Alex BatemanEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Anton I PetrovEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.

Funding

HMMER and Infernal: Finding distant homologs of sequences and RNA structuresR01HG009116 · NHGRI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI EDDY, SEAN R · 2016 to 2025
$4.3M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG009116NLM NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rfam is a database of RNA families where each of the 3444 families is represented by a multiple sequence alignment of known RNA sequences and a covariance model that can be used to search for additional members of the family. Recent developments have involved expert collaborations to improve the quality and coverage of Rfam data, focusing on microRNAs, viral and bacterial RNAs. We have completed the first phase of synchronising microRNA families in Rfam and miRBase, creating 356 new Rfam families and updating 40. We established a procedure for comprehensive annotation of viral RNA families starting with Flavivirus and Coronaviridae RNAs. We have also increased the coverage of bacterial and metagenome-based RNA families from the ZWD database. These developments have enabled a significant growth of the database, with the addition of 759 new families in Rfam 14. To facilitate further community contribution to Rfam, expert users are now able to build and submit new families using the newly developed Rfam Cloud family curation system. New Rfam website features include a new sequence similarity search powered by RNAcentral, as well as search and visualisation of families with pseudoknots. Rfam is freely available at https://rfam.org.

Indexed as

Databases, Nucleic AcidMetagenomeBacteriaBase PairingBase SequenceHumansInternetMicroRNAsMolecular Sequence AnnotationNucleic Acid ConformationRNA, BacterialRNA, UntranslatedRNA, ViralSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, RNASoftwareMicroRNAsRNA, BacterialRNA, UntranslatedRNA, Viral

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PMID33211869
PMCPMC7779021

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