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 citing-pfam:Pfam references.

Get in touch

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