TreeFam 9 is now available!

We are happy to announce that TreeFam 9 is online and you can find it under http://www.treefam.org.

TreeFam 9 now has 109 species (vs. 79 in TreeFam 8) and is based on data from Ensembl v69, Ensembl Genomes v16, Wormbase and JGI.

This release marks an important step for TreeFam as it is the first release build since TreeFam has been resurrected.
Here is a list of the most important changes in TreeFam 9:

• New website layout (adopting the Pfam/Rfam/Dfam layout)
• Infrastructure move of web servers and databases to the EBI
• Sequence search against the library of TreeFam family profiles
• new tree visualisations in pure javascript using D3, e.g. see the BRCA2 gene tree here.
• Pairwise homology download

We hope you find all the information you are looking for. If you don’t, please let us know so that we can include the information you want. The old website will remain online here.

If you have questions, suggestions or find bugs, don’t hesitate to contact us through our new forum here.

Happy treefamming,

the TreeFam team
(Fabian, Mateus)

We’re on the move

After 15 great years at the Sanger Institute we are on the move. On the 1st November, the Cambridge Xfam group will be taking up residence at the European Bioinformatics Institute on the other side of the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus. We’ll keep running the websites at Sanger for a bit longer, but eventually we’ll get them migrated over to EBI webspace. We’re hoping that the move will not cause any disruption to our users, but we might be a little bit slower at responding to your questions and bug reports.
We’ll keep you posted on updates to the website and database locations using the blog and our Twitter account.

TreeFam is back with a new release !

As some of you will already be aware, the Xfam family has recently gained a new member: the TreeFam database.
TreeFam aims to provide phylogenetic trees and orthology predictions for all animal genes.