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hmmalign(1)			 HMMER Manual			   hmmalign(1)

NAME
       hmmalign	- align	sequences to a profile

SYNOPSIS
       hmmalign	[options] hmmfile seqfile

DESCRIPTION
       Perform	a  multiple sequence alignment of all the sequences in seqfile
       by aligning them	individually to	the profile HMM	in hmmfile.   The  new
       alignment is output to stdout.

       The  hmmfile should contain only	a single profile. If it	contains more,
       only the	first profile in the file will be used.

       Either hmmfile or seqfile (but not both)	may be '-' (dash), which means
       reading this input from stdin rather than a file.

       The sequences in	seqfile	are aligned in unihit  local  alignment	 mode.
       Therefore  they should already be known to contain only a single	domain
       (or a fragment of one).	The optimal alignment may assign some residues
       as nonhomologous	(N and C states), in which  case  these	 residues  are
       still  included	in  the	 resulting  alignment, but shoved to the outer
       edges. To trim these unaligned nonhomologous residues from the  result,
       see the --trim option.

OPTIONS
       -h     Help;  print  a  brief  reminder	of  command line usage and all
	      available	options.

       -o <f> Direct the output	alignment to file <f>, rather than to stdout.

       --mapali	<f>
	      Merge the	existing alignment in file <f> into the	result,	 where
	      <f>  is  exactly	the  same alignment that was used to build the
	      model in hmmfile.	 This is done using a map of alignment columns
	      to consensus profile positions that is stored  in	 the  hmmfile.
	      The  multiple alignment in <f> will be exactly reproduced	in its
	      consensus	columns	(as defined by the profile), but the displayed
	      alignment	in insert columns may be altered,  because  insertions
	      relative	to  a  profile	are considered by convention to	be un-
	      aligned data.

       --trim Trim nonhomologous residues (assigned to N and C states  in  the
	      optimal  alignments)  from the resulting multiple	alignment out-
	      put.

       --amino
	      Assert that sequences in seqfile are protein, bypassing alphabet
	      autodetection.

       --dna  Assert that sequences in seqfile are DNA,	bypassing alphabet au-
	      todetection.

       --rna  Assert that sequences in seqfile are RNA,	bypassing alphabet au-
	      todetection.

       --informat <s>
	      Assert that input	seqfile	is in format <s>, bypassing format au-
	      todetection.  Common choices for <s> include: fasta, embl,  gen-
	      bank.   Alignment	 formats  also	work;  common choices include:
	      stockholm, a2m, afa, psiblast, clustal, phylip.  For more	infor-
	      mation, and for codes for	some less  common  formats,  see  main
	      documentation.   The  string  <s>	 is case-insensitive (fasta or
	      FASTA both work).

       --outformat <s>
	      Write the	output alignment in format <s>.	  Common  choices  for
	      <s>  include:  stockholm,	 a2m,  afa, psiblast, clustal, phylip.
	      The string <s> is	case-insensitive (a2m or A2M both work).   De-
	      fault is stockholm.

SEE ALSO
       See  hmmer(1)  for  a master man	page with a list of all	the individual
       man pages for programs in the HMMER package.

       For complete documentation, see the user	guide that came	with your  HM-
       MER distribution	(Userguide.pdf); or see	the HMMER web page (http://hm-
       mer.org/).

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2023 Howard Hughes	Medical	Institute.
       Freely distributed under	the BSD	open source license.

       For  additional	information  on	 copyright and licensing, see the file
       called COPYRIGHT	in your	HMMER source distribution, or  see  the	 HMMER
       web page	(http://hmmer.org/).

AUTHOR
       http://eddylab.org

HMMER 3.4			   Aug 2023			   hmmalign(1)

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