Bug#656626: ITP: hhsuite -- sensitive protein sequence searching based on HMM-HMM alignment

[Laszlo Kajan <lkajan@rostlab.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Laszlo Kajan <lkajan@rostlab.org>

* Package name    : hhsuite
  Version         : 2.0.4
  Upstream Author : Johannes Soeding, Michael Remmert, Andreas Hauser <hauser@genzentrum.lmu.de>, Andreas Biegert
* URL             : http://toolkit.genzentrum.lmu.de/sections/search
* License         : GPLv3
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : sensitive protein sequence searching based on HMM-HMM alignment

The HH-suite is an open-source software package for sensitive protein sequence searching based on the
pairwise alignment of hidden Markov models (HMMs). It contains HHsearch and HHblits
among other programs and utilities.
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HHsearch takes as input a multiple sequence alignment (MSA)
or profile HMM and searches a database of HMMs (e.g. PDB, Pfam, or InterPro) for homologous
proteins. HHsearch is often used for protein structure prediction to detect homologous templates
and to build highly accurate query-template pairwise alignments for homology modeling.
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HHblits can build high-quality MSAs starting from single sequences or from MSAs. It transforms these into a query HMM
and, using an iterative search strategy, adds significantly similar sequences from the previous search
to the updated query HMM for the next search iteration. Compared to PSI-BLAST, HHblits is
faster, up to twice as sensitive and produces more accurate alignments.