From d92dd77fe197fb6bf7b78da41d00f1f975a41671 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gmungoc <g.m.carstairs@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 12:03:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] JAL-2956 don't load (non-existent) HMMER jar entry in New
 View

---
 src/jalview/gui/Jalview2XML.java |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/jalview/gui/Jalview2XML.java b/src/jalview/gui/Jalview2XML.java
index aed73d6..9af840a 100644
--- a/src/jalview/gui/Jalview2XML.java
+++ b/src/jalview/gui/Jalview2XML.java
@@ -3192,7 +3192,7 @@ public class Jalview2XML
          * load any HMMER profile
          */
         String hmmJarFile = jseqs[i].getHmmerProfile();
-        if (hmmJarFile != null)
+        if (hmmJarFile != null && jprovider != null)
         {
           loadHmmerProfile(jprovider, hmmJarFile, alignmentSeq);
         }
-- 
1.7.10.2