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Rfam team
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The :raw-html:`<a href="http://rfam.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rfam database</a>` is curated and maintained
at the :raw-html:`<a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">European Bioinformatics Institute</a>` in Cambridge, UK.

European Bioinformatics Institute
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* :raw-html:`<a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/people/nancy-ontiveros" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nancy Ontiveros-Palacios</a>` - Biocurator
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/people/person/philippa-muston/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Philippa Muston</a>` - Software Developer
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/people/person/isaac-jandalala/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Isaac Jandalala</a>` - Software Developer
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/people/person/pedro-madrigal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pedro Madrigal</a>` - Rfam Project Leader
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/people/person/victoria-begley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Victoria Begley</a>` - Bioinformatician
* :raw-html:`<a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/people/alex-bateman" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Alex Bateman</a>` - Senior Team Leader

Collaborators
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* :raw-html:`<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6676-4706" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sean Eddy</a>` (Harvard University) - founding developer and author of Infernal software
* :raw-html:`<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2497-3427" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Eric Nawrocki</a>` (NCBI) - developer of the Infernal software
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://www.mcb.harvard.edu/directory/elena-rivas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Elena Rivas</a>` (Harvard University) - developer of the R-scape software
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4783-8823" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Manja Marz</a>`, :raw-html:`<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8999-4395" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sandra Triebel</a>`, and :raw-html:`<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6375-6441" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kevin Lamkiewicz</a>` (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) - collaborators on the :raw-html:`<a href="https://rfam.org/viruses" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rfam Viruses project</a>`
* :raw-html:`<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6043-807X" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sam Griffiths-Jones</a>` (University of Manchester) - *founding Rfam project leader* and a collaborator on the :raw-html:`<a href="https://rfam.org/microrna" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">microRNA project</a>`
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1508-8469" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Daniel Gautheret</a>` and :raw-html:`<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4134-6844" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Claire Toffano-Nioche</a>` (University of Paris-Saclay)
* :raw-html:`<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6681-3624" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zasha Weinberg</a>` (University of Leipzig) - developer of the ZWD database
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://bioinfo-scottgroup.med.usherbrooke.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michelle Scott</a>` and Kristina Song (Université de Sherbrooke)

Previous contributors
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* :raw-html:`<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7808-1213" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Paul Gardner</a>` - *former Rfam project leader*
* :raw-html:`<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2506-927X" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sarah Burge</a>` - *former Rfam project leader*
* :raw-html:`<a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/people/rob-finn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rob Finn</a>` - *Group Team Leader*
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://antonpetrov.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Anton I. Petrov</a>` - *former Rfam project leader*
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6497-2883" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Blake A. Sweeney</a>` - *former Rfam project leader*
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9424-9197" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ioanna Kalvari</a>` - *former Software developer*
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7894-8112" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Emma Cooke</a>` - *former Rfam Software Developer*
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2678-2824" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Joanna Argasinska</a>` - *former Biocurator*
* :raw-html:`<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6152-1369" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ruth Eberhardt</a>`
* :raw-html:`<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5431-190X" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Evan Floden</a>`
* John Tate
* Jennifer Daub
* Ben Moore
* Mhairi Marshall
* Simon Moxon
* Adam Wilkinson
* William Mifsud
* Enrico Marantidis
* Diana Kolbe

Rfam is a collaborative venture and we hope to interact
with as many people as possible to provide a quality database. Please
:ref:`contact-us:Contact us` for information.