HMMER Menu

This menu is available if hmmbuild tools have been installed and configured in the HMMER Preferences panel.

hmmbuild

Run hmmbuild to create a Hidden Markov Model profile of your sequence alignment or sub-groups.

The consensus sequence for the computed profile is inserted as the first sequence of the alignment (or group) for which hmmbuild is run.
Jalview also computes and displays an annotation below the alignment, showing the information content of each column.
This is calculated as the sum over residue symbols of

    match emission probability * log(match emission probability / background frequency) / log(2)
  
where the background frequencies are taken from (tbc: where? not https://www.ebi.ac.uk/uniprot/TrEMBLstats) hmmalign and hmmsearch require an HMM consensus sequence to be selected first.
To do this, right-click on the name of an HMM sequence added by hmmbuild, and 'Select HMM'. The alignment will be with respect to the HMM profile for the consensus sequence.

hmmalign

Run hmmalign to align selected sequences (or the whole alignment) to a selected HMM profile. hmmsearch

Run hmmsearch to use an HMM profile as input to search a sequence database.