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ArticleNucleic acids research2019

The Pfam protein families database in 2019.

Sara El-Gebali, Jaina Mistry, Alex Bateman, Sean R Eddy, Aurélien Luciani, Simon C Potter, Matloob Qureshi, Lorna J Richardson, Gustavo A Salazar, Alfredo Smart and 6 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2,504 papers.

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2,504citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2,504 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Sara El-GebaliEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Jaina MistryEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Alex BatemanEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Sean R EddyHHMI, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.
Aurélien LucianiEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Simon C PotterEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Matloob QureshiEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Lorna J RichardsonEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Gustavo A SalazarEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Alfredo SmartEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Erik L L SonnhammerScience for Life Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, 17121 Solna, Sweden.
Layla HirshDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Lisanna PaladinDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Damiano PiovesanDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Silvio C E TosattoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Robert D FinnEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.

Funding

HMMER and Infernal: Finding distant homologs of sequences and RNA structuresR01HG009116 · NHGRI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI EDDY, SEAN R · 2016 to 2025
$4.3M
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L024136/1NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG009116Wellcome Trust 108433/Z/15/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The last few years have witnessed significant changes in Pfam (https://pfam.xfam.org). The number of families has grown substantially to a total of 17,929 in release 32.0. New additions have been coupled with efforts to improve existing families, including refinement of domain boundaries, their classification into Pfam clans, as well as their functional annotation. We recently began to collaborate with the RepeatsDB resource to improve the definition of tandem repeat families within Pfam. We carried out a significant comparison to the structural classification database, namely the Evolutionary Classification of Protein Domains (ECOD) that led to the creation of 825 new families based on their set of uncharacterized families (EUFs). Furthermore, we also connected Pfam entries to the Sequence Ontology (SO) through mapping of the Pfam type definitions to SO terms. Since Pfam has many community contributors, we recently enabled the linking between authorship of all Pfam entries with the corresponding authors' ORCID identifiers. This effectively permits authors to claim credit for their Pfam curation and link them to their ORCID record.

Indexed as

Databases, ProteinMolecular Sequence AnnotationProtein DomainsProteinsRepetitive Sequences, Amino AcidProteins

Identifiers

PMID30357350
PMCPMC6324024

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