We are proud to announce that we have added help documentation to the Rfam website. The new pages can be accessed via the ‘Help’ link in the header of every page in the site.
Posts Tagged ‘rfam’
Rfam help documentation and demise of the old website
June 15, 2009Rfam plans and Infernal 1.0
February 23, 2009We 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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Rfam, 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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Rfam release 9.1
January 20, 2009Rfam version 9.1 was released on 12th January 2009. This release included 1372 familes – a big increase from release 9.0, which contained 603 families. The underlying sequence database was based on EMBL 92.
Welcome to the Xfam blog
January 19, 2009Welcome to the new blog for the Xfam databases ! Xfam is our shorthand for the combination of Pfam and Rfam databases, which we note will also future-proof us, in case we add any further databases to the brand.
We hope that this blog will become a useful point of reference, where our users can learn about what is going on behind the scenes at Xfam central. We will be announcing some important changes that are coming with the eagerly awaited release of HMMER 3. As well as announcing new releases of the data and website, we’ll also try to discuss our philosophy on protein/RNA domains and sequence classification. If there are other topics that you would like to hear more about, why not leave us a comment.
