It has been some time since Rfam has had a public update. However, the dwarves under Mount Rfam have busy for some time working on Rfam 10.0. The good elves at the Eddy-lab some time ago forged Infernal 1.0. Since then we have been busily adding Infernal 1.0 support and individually re-thresholding each Rfam family. This has been an epic adventure largely championed by our number one dwarf Jennifer ‘Gimlet’ Daub. She has since left and is now enjoying sunny NZ (hopefully these two events aren’t correlated). We also mapped all the families and searched a new version of rfamseq based on EMBL 100.
Archive for April, 2010
The Rfam decimal release is out!
April 16, 2010Alex wins the Benjamin Franklin award!
April 1, 2010
Our very own Alex Bateman has been awarded the prestigious Benjamin Franklin award! This is an annual award presented to someone in the community who has made significant contributions to promoting open access in the life sciences.
Nominations are made by at least two members of the community and then votes are collected by the good people at bioinformatics.org. Alex faced some stiff competition from many greats in the field yet still managed to win. He is the third Xfam associate who has won the award, joining Ewan Birney and Sean Eddy.
Naturally, all of the Xfam members are very happy with this result and are currently glowing in the reflected glory (or is that the result of the celebratory bubbly or the unseasonal weather).
Posted by: Rob and Paul.
