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Item Type:Article
Title:The Pfam protein families database.
Creators Name:Finn, R.D. and Mistry, J. and Tate, J. and Coggill, P. and Heger, A. and Pollington, J.E. and Gavin, O.L. and Gunasekaran, P. and Ceric, G. and Forslund, K. and Holm, L. and Sonnhammer, E.L.L. and Eddy, S.R. and Bateman, A.
Abstract:Pfam is a widely used database of protein families and domains. This article describes a set of major updates that we have implemented in the latest release (version 24.0). The most important change is that we now use HMMER3, the latest version of the popular profile hidden Markov model package. This software is approximately 100 times faster than HMMER2 and is more sensitive due to the routine use of the forward algorithm. The move to HMMER3 has necessitated numerous changes to Pfam that are described in detail. Pfam release 24.0 contains 11,912 families, of which a large number have been significantly updated during the past two years. Pfam is available via servers in the UK (http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/), the USA (http://pfam.janelia.org/) and Sweden (http://pfam.sbc.su.se/).
Source:Nucleic Acids Research
ISSN:0305-1048
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Volume:38
Number:Suppl 1
Page Range:D211-D222
Date:1 January 2010
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp985
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