Rfam team

The Rfam database is curated and maintained at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK.

European Bioinformatics Institute

• Nancy Ontiveros-Palacios - Biocurator

• Philippa Muston - Software Developer

• Isaac Jandalala - Software Developer

• Pedro Madrigal - Rfam Project Leader

• Victoria Begley - Bioinformatician

• 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, Sandra Triebel, 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)

• Zasha Weinberg (University of Leipzig) - developer of the ZWD database

• Michelle Scott and Kristina Song (Université de Sherbrooke)

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

• Blake A. Sweeney - former Rfam project leader

• Ioanna Kalvari - former Software developer

• Emma Cooke - former Rfam Software Developer

• Joanna Argasinska - former Biocurator

• Ruth Eberhardt

• Evan Floden

• 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 Contact us for information.