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Welcome to Pfam's documentation
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`Pfam <http://pfam.xfam.org/>`_ is a large collection of protein families, each represented by multiple sequence aligments 
and profile hidden Markov models (HMMs).


Contents:
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   /summary
   /getting-started
   /searching-pfam
   /pfam-entry
   /clan
   /pfam-faq
   /glossary
   /scores
   /citing-pfam
   /wikipedia
   /linking-to-pfam
   /guide-to-graphics
   /api
   /ftp-site
   /pfam
   /authorship
   /team-members
   /contact-us


License
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Pfam is freely available under the `Creative Commons Zero (“CC0”) licence <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>`_.

Citing Pfam
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If you use Pfam in your work, please consider citing the :ref:`citing-pfam:Latest publications`.

Get in touch
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If you have any questions or feedback, contact us through the `Pfam helpdesk <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/contact/support/pfam>`_.