---
title: RFAM
description: 'The Rfam database is a collection of RNA families, each represented
  by multiple sequence alignments, consensus secondary structures and covariance models
  (CMs). The families in Rfam break down into three broad functional classes: non-coding
  RNA genes, structured cis-regulatory elements and self-splicing RNAs. Typically
  these functional RNAs often have a conserved secondary structure which may be b'
tags:
- database
- families
- reference-database
- rna
source_url: https://rfam.org/
---

# RFAM

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The Rfam database is a collection of RNA families, each represented by multiple sequence alignments, consensus secondary structures and covariance models (CMs). The families in Rfam break down into three broad functional classes: non-coding RNA genes, structured cis-regulatory elements and self-splicing RNAs. Typically these functional RNAs often have a conserved secondary structure which may be b

Registry entry: `rfam` (MIR:00000409). Indexed for discovery only — the data is served by the resource itself, under its own terms of use.

**Source:** https://rfam.org/

_This dataset is part of the Atlas demo catalogue. See the repository history for provenance._