Rfam -- An non-coding RNA family database
What you can do:
Search for multiple sequence alignments and covariance models representing non-coding RNA families.
Highlights:
- 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.
Keywords:
- non-coding RNA
- noncoding RNA
- ncRNA data warehouse
- ncRNA
- RNA families
- RNA multiple alignments
Literature & Tutorials:
PubMed Link: Rfam
-- 2009 Update: Rfam: updates to the RNA families database
2011 Update: Rfam: Wikipedia, clans and the "decimal" release.
-- 2009 Update: Rfam: updates to the RNA families database
2011 Update: Rfam: Wikipedia, clans and the "decimal" release.
This record last updated: 03-25-2009