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HMMER

HMMER is used for searching sequence databases for homologs of protein sequences, and for making protein sequence alignments. It implements methods using probabilistic models called profile hidden Markov models (profile HMMs). Compared to BLAST, FASTA, and other sequence alignment and database search tools based on older scoring methodology, HMMER aims to be significantly more accurate and more able to detect remote homologs because of the strength of its underlying mathematical models. In the past, this strength came at significant computational expense, but in the new HMMER3 project, HMMER is now essentially as fast as BLAST.

http://hmmer.org/

Available modules

The overview below shows which HMMER installations are available per target architecture in EESSI, ordered based on software version (new to old).

To start using HMMER, load one of these modules using a module load command like:

module load HMMER/3.4-gompi-2023a

(This data was automatically generated on Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 13:05:29 UTC)

aarch64/generic aarch64/neoverse_n1 aarch64/neoverse_v1 aarch64/nvidia/grace x86_64/generic x86_64/amd/zen2 x86_64/amd/zen3 x86_64/amd/zen4 x86_64/intel/cascadelake x86_64/intel/haswell x86_64/intel/icelake x86_64/intel/sapphirerapids x86_64/intel/skylake_avx512
HMMER/3.4-gompi-2023a x x x x x x x x x x x x x