The Pfam protein families database

A Bateman, E Birney, L Cerruti, R Durbin… - Nucleic acids …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Nucleic acids research, 2002academic.oup.com
Pfam is a large collection of protein multiple sequence alignments and profile hidden
Markov models. Pfam is available on the World Wide Web in the UK at http://www. sanger.
ac. uk/Software/Pfam/, in Sweden at http://www. cgb. ki. se/Pfam/, in France at http://pfam.
jouy. inra. fr/and in the US at http://pfam. wustl. edu/. The latest version (6.6) of Pfam contains
3071 families, which match 69% of proteins in SWISS-PROT 39 and TrEMBL 14. Structural
data, where available, have been utilised to ensure that Pfam families correspond with …
Abstract
Pfam is a large collection of protein multiple sequence alignments and profile hidden Markov models. Pfam is available on the World Wide Web in the UK at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Pfam/, in Sweden at http://www.cgb.ki.se/Pfam/, in France at http://pfam.jouy.inra.fr/ and in the US at http://pfam.wustl.edu/. The latest version (6.6) of Pfam contains 3071 families, which match 69% of proteins in SWISS-PROT 39 and TrEMBL 14. Structural data, where available, have been utilised to ensure that Pfam families correspond with structural domains, and to improve domain-based annotation. Predictions of non-domain regions are now also included. In addition to secondary structure, Pfam multiple sequence alignments now contain active site residue mark-up. New search tools, including taxonomy search and domain query, greatly add to the functionality and usability of the Pfam resource.
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