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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2019

HH-suite3 for fast remote homology detection and deep protein annotation.

Martin Steinegger, Markus Meier, Milot Mirdita, Harald Vöhringer, Stephan J Haunsberger, Johannes Söding

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 619 papers.

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6 authors.

Martin SteineggerQuantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Munich, 81379, Germany.
Markus MeierQuantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Munich, 81379, Germany.
Milot MirditaQuantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Munich, 81379, Germany.
Harald VöhringerQuantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Munich, 81379, Germany.
Stephan J HaunsbergerRoyal College of Surgeons, Dublin, D02 YN77, Ireland.
Johannes SödingQuantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Munich, 81379, Germany. soeding@mpibpc.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9642-8244

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Horizon 2020 685778
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundHH-suite is a widely used open source software suite for sensitive sequence similarity searches and protein fold recognition. It is based on pairwise alignment of profile Hidden Markov models (HMMs), which represent multiple sequence alignments of homologous proteins.

resultsWe developed a single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) vectorized implementation of the Viterbi algorithm for profile HMM alignment and introduced various other speed-ups. These accelerated the search methods HHsearch by a factor 4 and HHblits by a factor 2 over the previous version 2.0.16. HHblits3 is ∼10× faster than PSI-BLAST and ∼20× faster than HMMER3. Jobs to perform HHsearch and HHblits searches with many query profile HMMs can be parallelized over cores and over cluster servers using OpenMP and message passing interface (MPI). The free, open-source, GPLv3-licensed software is available at https://github.com/soedinglab/hh-suite .

conclusionThe added functionalities and increased speed of HHsearch and HHblits should facilitate their use in large-scale protein structure and function prediction, e.g. in metagenomics and genomics projects.

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SoftwareAlgorithmsMarkov ChainsMolecular Sequence AnnotationSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, ProteinAlgorithmFunctional annotationHomology detectionProfile HMMProtein alignmentSequence searchSIMD

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PMCPMC6744700

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