Welcome to Pfam’s documentation

Pfam is a large collection of protein families, each represented by multiple sequence aligments and profile hidden Markov models (HMMs).

Contents:

• Summary
• Getting Started
• Searching Pfam
• Pfam entry page organisation
• Pfam entries creation and annotation
• Clan page organisation
• Training materials
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Glossary
• Pfam scores
• Citing Pfam
• Pfam Annotation in Wikipedia
• Linking to pages related to Pfam
• Generating graphics
• Querying Pfam using the InterPro API
• FTP Site
• About Pfam
• Authorship
• Team Members
• Contact us

License

Pfam is freely available under the Creative Commons Zero (“CC0”) licence.

Citing Pfam

If you use Pfam in your work, please consider citing the Pfam References.

Get in touch

If you have any questions or feedback, contact us through the Pfam helpdesk.