Rfam team¶
The Rfam database is curated and maintained at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK.
European Bioinformatics Institute¶
Nancy Ontiveros-Palacios - Biocurator
Emma Cooke - Rfam Software Developer
Blake A. Sweeney - Rfam Project Leader
Alex Bateman - Senior Team Leader
Collaborators¶
Sean Eddy (Harvard University) - founding developer and author of Infernal software
Eric Nawrocki (NCBI) - developer of the Infernal software
Elena Rivas (Harvard University) - developer of the R-scape software
Manja Marz and Kevin Lamkiewicz (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) - collaborators on the Rfam Viruses project
Sam Griffiths-Jones (University of Manchester) - founding Rfam project leader and a collaborator on the microRNA project
Daniel Gautheret and Claire Toffano-Nioche (University of Paris-Saclay) - collaborators on the Rfam Cloud project
Zasha Weinberg (University of Leipzig) - developer of the ZWD database
Previous contributors¶
Paul Gardner - former Rfam project leader
Sarah Burge - former Rfam project leader
Rob Finn - Group Team Leader
Anton I. Petrov - former Rfam project leader
Ioanna Kalvari - Software developer
Joanna Argasinska - Biocurator
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 be able to interact with as many people as possible to provide a quality database. Please Contact us for information.