HMMER is used for searching sequence databases for sequence homologs, and for making sequence alignments. It implements methods using probabilistic models called profile hidden Markov models (profile HMMs).

• Version: 3.3
• Added: September, 2017
• Updated: March, 2020
• Link: http://hmmer.org

See which versions of hmmer are available:

$ module avail hmmer

Load a version of hmmer into your environment:

$ module load hmmer/3.3

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://eddylab.org/software/hmmer/hmmer.tar.gz
$ tar xf hmmer.tar.gz 
$ cd hmmer-3.3/
$ scl enable devtoolset-7 bash
$ ./configure --prefix /export/apps/hmmer/3.3
$ make
$ make check
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/hmmer/3.3
$ sudo chown aorth /export/apps/hmmer/3.3
$ make install
$ sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/hmmer/3.3