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Until now the scientific community has not had a clear, standardized system for identifying and naming tRNA fragments. As a result, scientists across the world have been creating their own names for these functional molecules, making it difficult to compare and reproduce work in this field.

Naming system for transfer RNA fragments will increase research productivity, standardization

Biomolecular Engineering Professor Todd Lowe and his group created a new naming scheme for tRNA fragments aimed at standardizing research. The team made a free, open source web server that enables researchers to simply paste in their tRNA fragment sequences to receive a consistent, biologically informative name with additional annotations and graphic displays.

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