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diff --git a/biology/hmmer/pkg-descr b/biology/hmmer/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..869b22f5c3e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/biology/hmmer/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +HMMER is an implementation of profile HMM methods for sensitive database +searches using multiple sequence alignments as queries. + +Basically, you give HMMER a multiple sequence alignment as input; it builds +a statistical model called a "hidden Markov model" which you can then use as +a query into a sequence database to find (and/or align) additional +homologues of the sequence family. + +Hmmer is developed by Sean Eddy at Washington University School of Medicine. +More information is available at http://hmmer.wustl.edu/ |