Pfam: The protein families database in 2021

Jaina Mistry1, Sara Chuguransky1, Lowri Williams1

  • 1European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, UK.

Nucleic Acids Research
|October 30, 2020
PubMed
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