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Version 22.0, July 2007, 9318 families43312 unique Pfam-A domain architectures
Pfam is a large collection of multiple sequence alignments and hidden Markov models covering many common protein domains. For more information on the Pfam database and on using this site, click here.
Interactive WWW access to Pfam
- TEXT SEARCH
- Query Pfam by keywords.
- PROTEIN HMM SEARCH
- Find Pfam domain matches in your protein sequence.
- DNA HMM SEARCH
- Find Pfam domain matches in your DNA sequence.
- BROWSE PFAM
- View Pfam annotation and alignments.
- BROWSE SWISSPFAM
- View the domain organisation of any SWISSPROT/TrEMBL sequence according to Pfam.
- NIFAS
- Analyze the evolution of domain combinations with NIFAS.
- DOMAIN QUERY
- Query Pfam by domain architecture.
- Pfam::Alyzer - Graphical user-friendly interface to Pfam. It contains most of the functionalities of the tools above and features an extended domain query based on an intuitive graphical query language.
- Advanced options: Alignment retrieval with options
- More information and help on Pfam
- Pfam mirror servers worldwide:
WashU (USA),
Sanger (UK),
INRA (France),
CCBB (Korea)
FTP access to Pfam
You can also download the Pfam database and for instance search it
locally using the HMMER hidden
Markov model software.
- Hyperlink directly to the ftp site
- Release notes Pfam_format
- Pfam_ls - The Pfam global-local (ls) HMM library.
- Pfam_fs - The Pfam local-local (fs) HMM library.
- Pfam-A.full - The full alignments of the curated families.
- Pfam-A.seed - The seed alignments of the curated families.
- Pfam-B - Low-quality automatically generated alignments of sequence clusters in SWISSPROT and TrEMBL that are not modelled in the curated part of Pfam.
- Pfam-C - Pfam Clans
- swisspfam - The domain structure of SWISSPROT and TrEMBL proteins according to Pfam.
- pfamseq - The raw sequences from SWISSPROT and TrEMBL that Pfam is based upon.
- prior.tar - A set of prior files for specific Pfam families.
- diff - Differences relative to the previous release.
- Copyright notice for Pfam.
- The full text of the GNU Library General Public License that Pfam is licensed under.
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