TnPedia:About

This Tnpedia has been written in an attempt to assemble a body of information (including many of the historical articles) generally dispersed in the literature as an aid to understanding how knowledge has been built up to our present view of the key role played by transposable elements (TE) in prokaryotes – both in influencing gene expression, in driving genome evolution and in facilitating horizontal gene transfer (HGT).

How to cite TnPedia ?

If you use TnPedia in your work, please cite:

Ross K, Varani AM, Snesrud E, Huang H, Alvarenga DO, Zhang J, Wu C, McGann P, Chandler M. TnCentral: a Prokaryotic Transposable Element Database and Web Portal for Transposon Analysis. mBio. 2021 Oct 26;12(5):e0206021. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02060-21. Epub 2021 Sep 14. PMID: 34517763; PMCID: PMC8546635.

Chapter-level citations

Every individual chapter in TnPedia—whether it covers a General Information on Prokaryotic Elements, specific insertion-sequence (IS) family or a particular transposon (Tn)—is assigned its own DOI, shown at the bottom of the chapter page. When you draw on material from a specific chapter, please cite both:

1. The database paper above (Ross et al., 2021), and
2. The DOI of the chapter you consulted (e.g., “TnPedia Team. (2025). TnPedia – Chapter: The Tn3 Family of Prokaryotic Transposons. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15566224”).