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HMMER Profile File Format

General Information

The profile hidden Markov Model (HMM) calculated from multiple sequence alignment data in this service is stored in Profile HMM save format (usually with ".hmm" extension). It is an ASCII file containing a lot of header and descriptive records followed by large numerical matrix which holds a probabilistic model of the motif. The file of this format is useful to search against sequence databases to find other proteins which share the same motif.

Homepage http://www.hmmer.org

Countries that developed this resource European Union , United Kingdom , United States

Created in 1993

Taxonomic range

All

Knowledge Domains

Subjects

How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: HMMER Profile File Format; HMMER Profile File Format; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.n3rt95; Last edited: Jan. 17, 2019, 11:16 a.m.; Last accessed: Jul 31 2021 1:32 p.m.

Publication for citation HMMER web server: 2015 update. Finn RD,Clements J,Arndt W,Miller BL,Wheeler TJ,Schreiber F,Bateman A,Eddy SR; Nucleic Acids Res ; 2015; 10.1093/nar/gkv397;

Record updated: Jan. 17, 2019, 11:15 a.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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			The Wellcome Trust, UK|https://wellcome.ac.uk/|Funds
			Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA|http://www.harvard.edu|Maintains
			Howard Hughes Medical Institute|https://www.hhmi.org/|Maintains
			European Commission under FP7 Grant Agreement|http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm?pg=documents|Undefined
			European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK|https://www.ebi.ac.uk/|Maintains
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			The Wellcome Trust, UK|https://wellcome.ac.uk/|Funds
			Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA|http://www.harvard.edu|Maintains
			Howard Hughes Medical Institute|https://www.hhmi.org/|Maintains
			European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK|https://www.ebi.ac.uk/|Maintains
			European Commission under FP7 Grant Agreement|http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm?pg=documents|Funds
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			blog|https://cryptogenomicon.org/category/hmmer/
			online documentation|http://www.hmmer.org/publications.html
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			tess training|https://tess.elixir-europe.org/materials/similarity-searching-multiple-sequence-alignment-and-protein-families-undergraduate-lab
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			online documentation|http://www.hmmer.org/documentation.html
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			Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA|http://www.harvard.edu|Maintains
			Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Switzerland|https://www.sib.swiss|Maintains
			European Commission under FP7 Grant Agreement|http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm?pg=documents|Undefined
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			The Wellcome Trust, UK|https://wellcome.ac.uk/|Funds
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			European Commission under FP7 Grant Agreement|http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm?pg=documents|Undefined
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			Howard Hughes Medical Institute|https://www.hhmi.org/|Maintains
			European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK|https://www.ebi.ac.uk/|Maintains
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			Multiple sequence alignment||http://edamontology.org/operation_0492
			Sequence motif||http://edamontology.org/data_1353
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Support

General

blog	HMMER Blog
online documentation	Publications
online documentation	HMMER Documentation

Additional Information

Contact

Robert D Finn

TeSS training resources

Tools

No tools defined

Schemas

No XSD schemas defined

Access / Retrieve Data

Conditions of Use

Data Release

HMMER Algorithm Releases

http://www.hmmer.org/download.html

Data Access

HMMER Homology Search

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/hmmer/

Publications

Improved profile HMM performance by assessment of critical algorithmic features in SAM and HMMER.

Wistrand M,Sonnhammer EL
BMC Bioinformatics 2005

View Paper (PubMed) View Publication

HMMER web server: 2015 update.

Finn RD,Clements J,Arndt W,Miller BL,Wheeler TJ,Schreiber F,Bateman A,Eddy SR
Nucleic Acids Res 2015

View Paper (PubMed) View Publication

Related Standards

Reporting Guidelines

No guidelines defined

Terminology Artifacts

No semantic standards defined

Models and Formats

No syntax standards defined

Identifier Schemas

No identifier schema standards defined

Metrics

No metrics standards defined

Related Databases (3)

Pfam
The Pfam database is a large collection of protein families, each represented by multiple sequence alignments and hidden Markov models (HMMs). Pfam also generates higher-level groupings of related entries, known as clans. A clan is a collection of Pfam entries which are related by similarity of sequence, structure or profile-HMM.

Type IV Secretion system Resource
A web-based bacterial type IV secretion system resource for type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) and cognate effectors in bacteria.

3D interacting domains
The database of 3D Interaction Domains (3did) is a collection of domain-domain interactions in proteins for which high-resolution three-dimensional structures are known. 3did exploits structural information to provide critical molecular details necessary for understanding how interactions occur.

Implementing Policies

This record is not implemented by any policy.

Credit

Record Maintainer

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Funds

The Wellcome Trust, UK (Charitable foundation)
European Commission under FP7 Grant Agreement (Government body)

Maintains

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA (University)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Research institute) Lead
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK (Research institute)

Grant Number(s)

108433/Z/15/Z (The Wellcome Trust, UK)

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