As accomplishment of long intensive hard work of fRNAdb development team, fRNAdb --- the functional RNA database is finally released.

fRNAdb is a database that hosts a more than thirteen thousand sequences of putative and confirmed non-coding transcripts. The main purpose of fRNAdb is to facilitate filtering out functional RNA candidates from a pool of potentially non-coding transcripts. Each registered sequence is computationally analyzed for more than thirty attributes such as common cis-regulatory motifs, RNA structural motifs, sense/antisense formations, evolutionary conserved secondary structures etc. User friendly filtering interfaces allow users to pick up functional RNA candidates that meet their own criteria with several mouse clicks. Also, each registered sequence is mapped to human genome (hg17 and hg18), and the mapping information can be browsed from our customized UCSC Genome Browser for Functional RNAs. The Genome Browser hosts many new tracks that will help you find potential functional RNA genes.

fRNAdb and UCSC Genome Browser for Functional RNAs are developed and maintained by fRNAdb Development Team. This development is partly supported by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan as a part of Functional RNA Project since 2005.

Lead developer
Taishin Kin, Ph.D.
kin-taishin AT aist DOT go DOT jp

2-42 Aomi, Koto-ku,
Tokyo, Japan
135-0064