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Expand Up @@ -73,5 +73,14 @@ We can simply do `phmmer HBB_HUMAN globins45.fa` to search for human $\beta$-glo
The usage would be identical to phmmer, such as `jackhmmer HBB_HUMAN globins45.fa`
Let us compare the outputs from phmmer and jackhmmer for the same query.

## Doing the reverse

We can also build databases out of a bunch of profile-HMM models and query a single protein against that.
Now that we already have two models, we can combine them by doing `cat globins4.hmm fn3.hmm > minidatabase` and convert this into a searchable database by doing `hmmpress minidatabase`.
This will generate a bunch of binary files.
We can now query a protein against this database using `hmmscan minidatabase 7LESS_DROME`.
This is very useful if we have a large, possibly multidomain protein and we want to find out what kinds of domains might have.

## Nucleic acids

Finally, note that you can use hmmer similarly with DNA and RNA sequences.

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