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: 3.1b2
• Added: September, 2017
• Link: http://hmmer.org

See which versions of hmmer are available:

$ module avail hmmr

Load a version of hmmer into your environment:

$ module load hmmer/3.1b2

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://eddylab.org/software/hmmer3/3.1b2/hmmer-3.1b2-linux-intel-x86_64.tar.gz
$ tar xf hmmer-3.1b2-linux-intel-x86_64.tar.gz
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/hmmer/3.1b2/{bin,share}
$ sudo cp -rv hmmer-3.1b2-linux-intel-x86_64/binaries/* /export/apps/hmmer/3.1b2/bin
$ sudo cp -rv hmmer-3.1b2-linux-intel-x86_64/share/* /export/apps/hmmer/3.1b2/share