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ArticleMobile DNA2026

Unifying Repbase and Dfam: a new open foundation for transposable element research.

Kenji K Kojima, Arian F A Smit, Weidong Bao, Oleksiy Kohany, Noriko F Kojima, Timothy Jurka, Robert Hubley, Travis J Wheeler

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Article in Mobile DNA, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Kenji K KojimaGenetic Information Research Institute, East Palo Alto, 94303, CA, USA.
Arian F A SmitInstitute for Systems Biology, Seattle, 98109, WA, USA.
Weidong BaoGenetic Information Research Institute, East Palo Alto, 94303, CA, USA.
Oleksiy KohanyGenetic Information Research Institute, East Palo Alto, 94303, CA, USA.
Noriko F KojimaGenetic Information Research Institute, East Palo Alto, 94303, CA, USA.
Timothy JurkaGenetic Information Research Institute, East Palo Alto, 94303, CA, USA.
Robert HubleyInstitute for Systems Biology, Seattle, 98109, WA, USA.
Travis J WheelerCollege of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, 85719, AZ, USA. twheeler@arizona.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Repbase and Dfam, the two foundational resources for transposable element annotation, are being unified into a single, fully open access framework, with Repbase released under CC-0 and its core curation team joining the Dfam project.

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IntegrationRepositoryTransposable elements

Identifiers

PMID42343465
PMCPMC13296103

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