rrnDB

A searchable database documenting variation in ribosomal RNA operons (rrn) in Bacteria and Archaea. Find information such as the 16S gene copy number of an organism by looking up its name under the NCBI or RDP taxonomy or by full-text search of rrnDB's records.

Please cite the use of rrnDB in the following way:

• Stoddard S.F, Smith B.J., Hein R., Roller B.R.K. and Schmidt T.M. (2015) rrnDB: improved tools for interpreting rRNA gene abundance in bacteria and archaea and a new foundation for future development. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1201 [PMID:25414355]

This article is freely available as abstract and full text [HTML] [PDF].

Data and code from Nature Microbiology “Exploiting rRNA operon copy number to investigate bacterial reproductive strategies” is available here: [download link]

Curated by the Schmidt Laboratory at the University of Michigan.

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Estimate the number of rrn operons
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Cite the rrnDB's NAR article

The current rrnDB version (5.9) includes 40,019 Bacterial records representing 10,169 species, and 585 Archaeal records representing 458 species.