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  1. HMMER is used for searching sequence databases for sequence homologs,
  2. and for making sequence alignments. It implements methods using
  3. probabilistic models called profile hidden Markov models (profile
  4. HMMs). HMMER is designed to detect remote homologs as sensitively as
  5. possible, relying on the strength of its underlying probability
  6. models.
  7. HMMER is often used together with a profile database, such as Pfam
  8. or many of the databases that participate in Interpro. But HMMER
  9. can also work with query sequences, not just profiles, just like
  10. BLAST. For example, you can search a protein query sequence against
  11. a database with phmmer, or do an iterative search with jackhmmer.