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HMMER web server: 2018 update

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Potter, Simon C, Luciani, Aurélien, Eddy, Sean R, Park, Youngmi, Lopez, Rodrigo, Finn, Robert D·2018·Nucleic Acids Research

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The HMMER webserver [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/hmmer] is a free-to-use service which provides fast searches against widely used sequence databases and profile hidden Markov model (HMM) libraries using the HMMER software suite (http://hmmer.org). The results of a sequence search may be summarized in a number of ways, allowing users to view and filter the significant hits by domain architecture or taxonomy. For large scale usage, we provide an application programmatic interface (API) which has been expanded in scope, such that all result presentations are available via both HTML and API. Furthermore, we have refactored our JavaScript visualization library to provide standalone components for different result representations. These consume the aforementioned API and can be integrated into third-party websites. The range of databases that can be searched against has been expanded, adding four sequence datasets (12 in total) and one profile HMM library (6 in total). To help users explore the biological context of their results, and to discover new data resources, search results are now supplemented with cross references to other EMBL-EBI databases.

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  • MGnify sequence MGYP000936678158 has no significant sequence matches to any entry in UniRef90, nor any significant matches via a jackhmmer reference proteome search, but has a predicted structure conserved across many nucleases (PDB 5YET B, TM-score 0.68; PDB 3HR4 A, TM-score 0.67).

    “MGnify sequence MGYP000936678158 has no significant sequence matches to any entry in UniRef90, nor any significant matches via a jackhmmer (47) reference proteome search, but has a predicted structure conserved across many nucleases (PDB 5YET B, TM-score 0.68; PDB 3HR4 A, TM-score 0.67)”

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Authors
Potter, S. C., Luciani, A., Eddy, S. R., Park, Y., Lopez, R., & Finn, R. D.
Affiliations
  • European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
  • EMBL-EBI European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
Corresponding author
Finn, Robert D
Venue
Nucleic Acids Research
Published
2018-06-14
Volume
46
Issue
W1
Pages
W200-W204
ISSN
  • 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
  • 1362-4962
OpenAlex
W2918063357
Cited by
2,607
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 348 · 2025: 433 · 2024: 407 · 2023: 385 · 2022: 372 · 2021: 357 · 2020: 208 · 2019: 88 · 2018: 9
FWCI
61.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nucleic Acids Research (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (R01 HG009116)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Scientific Computing and Data Management
Keywords
profile hidden Markov models, sequence database searching, domain architecture, sequence databases
MeSH terms
Markov Chains, Software, User-Computer Interface, Sequence Analysis, Catalytic Domain, Internet, Sequence Analysis, Protein, Databases, Genetic

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