We recently held our annual Rfam Next Big Things (NBT®) meeting. This is the meeting where we decide what the big changes for our various projects will be. Since Sean asked for it (and I think it’s a good idea), I thought I would discuss the biggest NBT® here. This is Rfam adopting Infernal 1.0 for release 10.0.
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Archive for February, 2009
Rfam plans and Infernal 1.0
February 23, 2009Rfam, RNA Biology and Wikipedia in the news
February 20, 2009Some of you may have noticed the recent attention that the unholy alliance between Rfam, RNA Biology and Wikipedia has been receiving recently. I thought it might be worthwhile posting a more detailed overview of how this happened, what we’re planning and dealing with the major criticisms.
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Updates to Rfam in 2008
February 11, 20092008 was a big year for Rfam. I’ll outline a few of the major achievements below. Many of these developments are also discussed in the latest Rfam papers [1,2].
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