title: Pfam: clans, web tools and services.
abstract: Pfam is a database of protein families that currently contains 7973 entries (release 18.0). A recent development in Pfam has enabled the grouping of related families into clans. Pfam clans are described in detail, together with the new associated web pages. Improvements to the range of Pfam web tools and the first set of Pfam web services that allow programmatic access to the database and associated tools are also presented. Pfam is available on the web in the UK (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Pfam/), the USA (http://pfam.wustl.edu/), France (http://pfam.jouy.inra.fr/) and Sweden (http://pfam.cgb.ki.se/).
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK. rdf@sanger.ac.uk
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Finn
authors.forename: Jaina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mistry
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schuster-Böckler
authors.forename: Sam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Griffiths-Jones
authors.forename: Volker
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hollich
authors.forename: Timo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lassmann
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moxon
authors.forename: Mhairi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.forename: Ajay
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khanna
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Durbin
authors.forename: Sean R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Eddy
authors.forename: Erik L L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Sonnhammer
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bateman
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D030562:Databases, Protein; D020407:Internet; D008390:Markov Chains; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins