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Dfam Database of Transposable Elements

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The Dfam database is a open collection of Transposable Element DNA sequence alignments, hidden Markov Models (HMMs), consensus sequences, and genome annotations. www.dfam.org

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Dfam Database of Transposable Elements @dfam.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A New Open Foundation for TE Research: GIRI is transitioning the full Repbase collection to an open-access license and joining the Dfam effort to help build a unified open resource for transposable element research. Full announcement: tinyurl.com/48665xss

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Dfam Database of Transposable Elements @dfam.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Dfam 4.0 has been released. With over 7 million TE families spanning 6130 species, Dfam continues to grow through genome sequencing and community submissions. This release also introduces an improved FamDB format, making it easier to obtain only the data you need. Release notes: tinyurl.com/6dzwu4w8

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Dfam Database of Transposable Elements @dfam.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Today we’re introducing a major update to the family seed alignments, protein features, and relationship data visualizations on the Dfam website. In addition, we are adding two new datasets: ULTRA reported tandem repeats, and self-alignments.

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Dfam Family Visualization Improvements

Today we’re introducing a major update to how TE family seed alignments, protein features, and relationship data are visualized on the Dfam website. Previously, these datasets were presented separa…

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Dfam Database of Transposable Elements @dfam.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Today we released Dfam 3.9 with many new community submissions and the result of a thorough curation and update of the Drosophila Melanogaster library. www.dfam.org (release notes: www.dfam.org/releases/Dfa...)

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Dfam

Open database of transposable elements and repetitive DNA families

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