RNAsifter 1.0

RNAsifter is a free non-rigorous filter for the Rfam database, that is based on the abstract shape approach.

RNAsifter exploits the familily specific secondary structure, i.e. it computes shapes for the query-sequence and compares them to a precalculated shape-index.

The exact matches deliver - hope-fully only few - candiate families in which the query-sequence might fold. Membership for the candidate families is checked with the program cmsearch, afterwards.

Requirements:

· Perl