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About Pfam

Pfam version 27.0 was produced at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Howard Hughes Janelia Farm Research Campus. Pfam is built using a sequence database called Pfamseq, which is based on UniProt release 2012_06.

Pfam is freely available under the Creative Commons Zero ("CC0") licence. We comply with the data sharing guidelines of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Pfam is powered by the HMMER3 package written by Sean Eddy at the Howard Hughes Janelia Farm Research Campus.

Pfam mirror sites are maintained at three main locations:

in the UK, at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, by John Tate
in the US, at Howard Hughes Janelia Farm Research Campus, by Rob Finn, Jody Clements and Goran Ceric
in Sweden, at the Stockholm Bioinformatics Centre, by Kristoffer Forslund and Erik Sonnhammer