We’re currently working on a new version of one of our core scripts, ‘pfam_scan.pl’. This script searches a set of protein sequences (in FASTA format) against Pfam’s library of HMMs. The original code was written nearly a decade ago but, since then, features have been added, bugs have been fixed and the code has evolved into something that is far from elegant. The re-write is something that we’ve been planning to do for a while and, as the code needs updating to use the new HMMER3 software, now seems like the perfect time to do it. Read the rest of this entry »
