Sequence classification: Pfam and InterPro

Trainers: Typhaine Paysan-Lafosse & Sara Chuguransky

Overview: In this lecture and practical the structural family resources HMMER, InterPro and Pfam are covered, which together hold protein families, domains, functional sites and predicted sites.

Learning objectives:

  • Recognise Pfam website features and functionalites
  • Perform different types of search on the Pfam website
  • Interpret information output from Pfam website searches
  • Explain different protein models algorithm
  • Perform a protein sequence analysis
  • Use InterPro efficiently

Materials:

  • 2022 edition recorded lecture: