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| author | Johann Visagie <wjv@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-07-05 08:58:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Johann Visagie <wjv@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-07-05 08:58:12 +0000 |
| commit | 7ddb2910c6aab245ed9a80da93e0819688541461 (patch) | |
| tree | 073a14dc5d5f7a89115de7ba33ce423f3808ad12 /biology/hmmer/pkg-descr | |
| parent | a6667cd9cbd2c67907166121efa058daba9c611a (diff) | |
| download | ports-7ddb2910c6aab245ed9a80da93e0819688541461.tar.gz ports-7ddb2910c6aab245ed9a80da93e0819688541461.zip | |
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diff --git a/biology/hmmer/pkg-descr b/biology/hmmer/pkg-descr index c30abfd4d218..165fcd76b377 100644 --- a/biology/hmmer/pkg-descr +++ b/biology/hmmer/pkg-descr @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ -HMMER is an implementation of profile HMM methods for sensitive database -searches using multiple sequence alignments as queries. +HMMER is an implementation of profile hidden Markov model methods for +sensitive searches of biological sequence databases 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. +Given a multiple sequence alignment as input, HMMER builds a statistical +model called a "hidden Markov model" which can then be used as a query into +a sequence database to find (and/or align) additional homologues of the +sequence family. WWW: http://hmmer.wustl.edu/ |