Powering down the Pfam website
On October 5th, we began redirecting traffic from Pfam (pfam.xfam.org) to InterPro (www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro). The Pfam website will remain available at pfam-legacy.xfam.org until January 2023, when it will be decommissioned. You can read more about the sunset period in our blog post.

About Pfam

Pfam version 35.0 was produced at the European Bioinformatics Institute using a sequence database called Pfamseq, which is based on UniProt release 2021_03.

Pfam is freely available under the Creative Commons Zero ("CC0") licence.

Pfam is powered by the HMMER3 package written by Sean Eddy and his group at HHMI/ Harvard University, and built by the Xfam consortium.

Pfam is supported by the following organisations:
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  EMBL is EMBL-EBI's parent organisation. It provides core funding (staff, space, equipment) for Pfam.
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  The Wellcome Trust has supported Pfam since the database inception, via core funding when based at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. As well as providing and maintaining the campus on which the EMBL-EBI is located, the Wellcome Trust also now provides significant funding for Pfam (grant 108433/Z/15/Z). The current grant runs from October 2015 to September 2020.
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  BBSRC has previously supported Pfam activities via grants BB/L024136/1 and BB/N00521X/1.
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  The Howard Hughes Medical Institute supports the Eddy group.

Many organisations have supported Pfam activities in the past.

For more information, please contact the Pfam helpdesk.

Pfam is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure

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Comments or questions on the site? Send a mail to pfam-help@ebi.ac.uk. 

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