hmmpress(1)							   HMMER Manual 						       hmmpress(1)

NAME

       hmmpress - prepare an HMM database for hmmscan

SYNOPSIS

       hmmpress [options] <hmmfile>

DESCRIPTION

       Starting from a profile database <hmmfile> in standard HMMER3 format, construct binary compressed datafiles for hmmscan.  The hmmpress step
       is required for hmmscan to work.

       Four files are created: <hmmfile>.h3m, <hmmfile>.h3i, <hmmfile>.h3f, and <hmmfile>.h3p.	The <hmmfile>.h3m file contains the  profile  HMMs
       and  their  annotation in a binary format.  The <hmmfile>.h3i file is an SSI index for the <hmmfile>.h3m file.  The <hmmfile>.h3f file con-
       tains precomputed data structures for the fast heuristic filter (the MSV filter).  The <hmmfile>.h3p file contains precomputed data  struc-
       tures for the rest of each profile.

OPTIONS

       -h     Help; print a brief reminder of command line usage and all available options.

       -f     Force;  overwrites  any  previous hmmpress'ed datafiles. The default is to bitch about any existing files and ask you to delete them
	      first.

SEE ALSO

       See hmmer(1) for a master man page with a list of all the individual man pages for programs in the HMMER package.

       For complete documentation, see the user guide that came  with  your  HMMER  distribution  (Userguide.pdf);  or	see  the  HMMER  web  page
       (@HMMER_URL@).

COPYRIGHT

       @HMMER_COPYRIGHT@
       @HMMER_LICENSE@

       For  additional	information  on copyright and licensing, see the file called COPYRIGHT in your HMMER source distribution, or see the HMMER
       web page (@HMMER_URL@).

AUTHOR

       Eddy/Rivas Laboratory
       Janelia Farm Research Campus
       19700 Helix Drive
       Ashburn VA 20147 USA
       http://eddylab.org

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