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Pfam: Quick tour
This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the protein families database Pfam, based at EMBL-EBI. Each protein family is represented by multiple sequence alignments and a profile hidden Markov model, which is used to create a probabilistic model that represents the family.
Keywords: Protein families, Multiple sequence alignments, Profile Hidden Markov models, HMMs
Target audience: PhD students, Clinicians
Resource type: e-learning
Scientific topics: Gene and protein families
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