Dfam paper is an NAR “featured article”; RepeatMasker4 is out

We are pleased to announce that the Dfam paper (“Dfam: a database of repetitive DNA based on profile hidden Markov models“) is now available in the 2013 NAR Database issue, and has been selected as a “featured article” (meaning the NAR editorial board thinks it is among “the top 5% of papers in terms of originality, significance and scientific excellence”).

In other exciting news, two members of the Dfam consortium, Arian Smit and Robert Hubley (Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle), just released RepeatMasker 4.0. This is a major update that, among other important improvements, adds support for searching with Dfam and nhmmer. Go get yourself a copy at http://www.repeatmasker.org/

Posted by Travis