Dfam is growing up. This is the first major expansion of the database since it’s inception. We’ve added repeat families from four new organisms: mouse, zebrafish, fruit fly, and nematode. In total, this release includes 2,844 new familes ( 4,150 total ).
With Dfam, we are striving to build models of repeat families that yield high sensitivity without undue false annotation. In this release of Dfam, we have improved our model building strategy to reduce the potential for false annotation, especially in the context of overextending alignments around true interspersed repeat instances.
Go to the Xfam blog to read the rest … (Say hello to Dfam1.4.)
