The current Pfam release, version 26.0, took approximately 4 months to nurse through the various stages of updating the sequence database, resolving overlaps between families, rebuilding the MySQL database and performing all of the post-processing that constitutes the ‘release’. The production team strives to make two releases a year, but I really do not fancy spend two thirds of a year on Pfam releases. Thus, with my colleagues, I have been reviewing what we do and why we do it and, probably more importantly, assessing how much different sections of the Web site are used. Below is a list of changes that are going to happen in the next release, release 27.0.
