| Chapter title |
Rfam: Annotating Families of Non-Coding RNA Sequences
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 22 |
| Book title |
RNA Bioinformatics
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| Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, December 2014
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| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-2291-8_22 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-2290-1, 978-1-4939-2291-8
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| Authors |
Jennifer Daub, Ruth Y. Eberhardt, John G. Tate, Sarah W. Burge |
| Editors |
Ernesto Picardi |
| Abstract |
The primary task of the Rfam database is to collate experimentally validated noncoding RNA (ncRNA) sequences from the published literature and facilitate the prediction and annotation of new homologues in novel nucleotide sequences. We group homologous ncRNA sequences into "families" and related families are further grouped into "clans." We collate and manually curate data cross-references for these families from other databases and external resources. Our Web site offers researchers a simple interface to Rfam and provides tools with which to annotate their own sequences using our covariance models (CMs), through our tools for searching, browsing, and downloading information on Rfam families. In this chapter, we will work through examples of annotating a query sequence, collating family information, and searching for data. |
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