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Nucleic Acids Research, 2000, Vol. 28, No. 1 263-266
© 2000 Oxford University Press

The Pfam Protein Families Database

Alex Bateman*, Ewan Birney, Richard Durbin, Sean R. Eddy1, Kevin L. Howe and Erik L. L. Sonnhammer2

The Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK, 1Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA and 2Center for Genomics Research, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden

Pfam is a large collection of protein multiple sequence alignments and profile hidden Markov models. Pfam is available on the WWW in the UK at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Pfam/ , in Sweden at http://www.cgr.ki.se/Pfam/ and in the US at http://pfam.wustl.edu/ . The latest version (4.3) of Pfam contains 1815 families. These Pfam families match 63% of proteins in SWISS-PROT 37 and TrEMBL 9. For complete genomes Pfam currently matches up to half of the proteins. Genomic DNA can be directly searched against the Pfam library using the Wise2 package.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +44 1223 494950; Fax: +44 1223 494919; Email: agb@sanger.ac.uk


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