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ArticleNucleic acids research2010

The Pfam protein families database.

Robert D Finn, Jaina Mistry, John Tate, Penny Coggill, Andreas Heger, Joanne E Pollington, O Luke Gavin, Prasad Gunasekaran, Goran Ceric, Kristoffer Forslund and 4 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1,724 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Robert D FinnWellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK. rdf@sanger.ac.uk
Jaina Mistry
John Tate
Penny Coggill
Andreas Heger
Joanne E Pollington
O Luke Gavin
Prasad Gunasekaran
Goran Ceric
Kristoffer Forslund
Liisa Holm
Erik L L Sonnhammer
Sean R Eddy
Alex Bateman

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F010435/1Howard Hughes Medical InstituteMedical Research Council MC_U137761446Wellcome Trust 087656Wellcome Trust WT077044/Z/05/Z
6 · The paper itself

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/).

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Databases, Nucleic AcidDatabases, ProteinAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsComputational BiologyGenome, ArchaealGenome, FungalHumansInformation Storage and RetrievalInternetMolecular Sequence DataProtein Structure, TertiarySequence AlignmentSequence Homology, Amino AcidSoftware

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PMID19920124
PMCPMC2808889

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