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Documentation

You can find links to Pfam documentation in our help page (http://pfam.xfam.org/help#tabview=tab0) which includes user manual, FAQ and online tutorials.

You can find links to documentation about InterPro (user manual, FAQ, online tutorials) as well as links to relevant online training modules on our help page (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/help/).

Further reading

If you want to know more about HMMER and the different HMMER search methods, you can have a look at this recorded webinar.

If you use Pfam in the future, please cite our latest publication:

Mistry J, et. al. Pfam: The protein families database in 2021. Nucleic Acids Research (2020) doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa913

If you are going to use InterPro or InterProScan in the future, please cite the references describing them:

Blum M,et al. The InterPro protein families and domains database: 20 years on. Nucleic Acids Research (2020) doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa977

Jones P, et al. InterProScan 5: genome-scale protein function classification. Bioinformatics (2014) doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu031

Sangrador-Vegas A, et al. GO annotation in InterPro: why stability does not indicate accuracy in a sea of changing annotation. Database (2016) doi: 10.1093/database/baw027