Rfam Help

Rfam is a collection of non-coding RNA families represented by manually curated sequence alignments, consensus secondary structures, and predicted homologues.

This documentation is maintained by the Rfam team. Please report any issues or contribute on GitHub.

Contents

About Rfam

• About Rfam
• How Rfam families are built
• Glossary
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Rfam team
• Contact us

Data access

• Searching Rfam
  • Unified text search
  • Sequence search
  • Other ways to search Rfam
• Rfam FTP Site
  • Documentation
  • Sequences, Alignments, Models and Trees
  • Rfam database dumps
• Rfam API
  • Data access
  • Endpoints
  • Sequence searches
  • Links
• Public MySQL Database
  • Connection details
  • Main tables
  • Example queries

Other

• Genome annotation
• Rfam cloud pipeline
• Extract ncRNA sequences
• How to link to Rfam?
• Citing Rfam
• Privacy
• Website updates

License

Rfam is freely available under the Creative Commons Zero (“CC0”) licence.

Citing Rfam

If you use Rfam in your work, please consider citing the Rfam references.

Get in touch

If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to submit a GitHub issue or email us at rfam-help@ebi.ac.uk.

Funding

Rfam is supported by the BBSRC and Wellcome and is developed at the EMBL-EBI.