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HMMER Profile Search

HMMER profile search identifies distant protein sequence homologs using probabilistic models of protein families, known as profile Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Developed by Eddy and colleagues, this method captures sequence variation patterns within protein families and detects homologs with far greater sensitivity than position-weight matrices or pairwise alignment.

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Hidden Markov Model Profile Search for Sequence Homology
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / bioinformatics
  • Krogh, A., Brown, M., Mian, I. S., Sjölander, K., & Haussler, D. (1994). Hidden Markov models in computational biology: applications to protein modeling. Journal of Molecular Biology, 235(5), 1501-1531. · DOI 10.1006/jmbi.1994.1104
  • Eddy, S. R. (1998). Profile hidden Markov models. Bioinformatics, 14(9), 755-763. · DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.9.755
  • Finn, R. D., Clements, J., & Eddy, S. R. (2011). HMMER web server: interactive sequence similarity searching. Nucleic Acids Research, 39(Web Server issue), W29-W37. · DOI 10.1093/nar/gkr367
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