A new maintenance release of RepeatMasker (4.2.1) is available. This version includes fixes for users having trouble importing Repbase into FamDB, and for several special-case issues reported by users. See the www.repeatmasker.org for more release details.

Today we’re introducing a major update to the family seed alignments, protein features, and relationship data visualizations on the Dfam website. In addition, we are adding two new datasets: ULTRA reported tandem repeats, and self-alignments.

Multiple Software Updates - RepeatMasker 4.2.0, RepeatModeler 2.0.7, and the newly released RepeatAfterMe tool. See www.repeatmasker.org for details.

RepeatMasker 4.1.9 released. This release includes fixes for ProcessRepeats (speed issues, and divide-by-zero), a
fix for clade-level pHMM (nhmmer) searches, and some minor utility/documentation updates. See the www.repeatmasker.org for more release details.

RepeatMasker 4.1.8 released. A major update to ProcessRepeats has significantly reduced RepeatMasker's memory requirements. Additionally, RepeatMasker now supports the new FamDB 2.0.0 format introduced in Dfam 3.9. See the www.repeatmasker.org for more release details.

RepeatModeler 2.0.6, RepeatScout 1.0.7, and Updated Dfam 3.8 FamDB Files. Improvements to coordinate reporting, and RepeatScout seed alignment generation. Fixes for primate annotation with Dfam 3.8. See www.repeatmasker.org or details.

RepeatMasker 4.1.7 Released. Several important updates and fixes are included in this release, especially for RepeatModeler/TETools users. Please see www.repeatmasker.org for more details.

Coseg 0.2.4 Released. This includes a workaround for handling IUB codes suggested by David Ray, improvements to divergence calculations and several bugfixes. See www.repeatmasker.org/COSEGDownloa... for more details.