| ehmmindex

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## Function

Create a binary SSI index for an HMM database

## Description

EMBASSY HMMER is a suite of application wrappers to the original hmmer v2.3.2 applications written by Sean Eddy. hmmer v2.3.2 must be installed on the same system as EMBOSS and the location of the hmmer executables must be defined in your path for EMBASSY HMMER to work.

Usage:
ehmmindex [options] database

hmmindex is a utility that creates a binary SSI ('squid sequence index' format) index for an HMM database file called . The new index file is named database.ssi. An SSI index file is required for hmmfetch to work, and also for the PVM implementation of hmmpfam.

## Algorithm

Please read the Userguide.pdf distributed with the original HMMER and included in the EMBASSY HMMER distribution under the DOCS directory.

## Usage

Here is a sample session with ehmmindex

    % ehmmindex myhmmso
    Create a binary SSI index for an HMM database.

    hmmindex -- create SSI index for an HMM database
    HMMER 2.3.2 (Oct 2003)
    Copyright (C) 1992-2003 HHMI/Washington University School of Medicine
    Freely distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    HMM file:                 ./myhmmso
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

    Determining offsets for ./myhmmso, please be patient...
    Complete.
    HMM file:       ./myhmmso
    SSI index:      ./myhmmso.ssi
    # of HMMS:      3
    HMM names:      3
    HMM accessions: 2

    /shared/software/bin/hmmindex ./myhmmso

Go to the output files for this example

## Command line arguments

Where possible, the same command-line qualifier names and parameter order is used as in the original hmmer. There are however several unavoidable differences and these are clearly documented in the "Notes" section below.

More or less all options documented as "expert" in the original hmmer user guide are given in ACD as "advanced" options (-options must be specified on the command-line in order to be prompted for a value for them).

    Create a binary SSI index for an HMM database.
    Version: EMBOSS:6.2.0

       Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers:
      [-database]          infile     HMM database.

       Additional (Optional) qualifiers: (none)
       Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers: (none)
       Associated qualifiers: (none)
       General qualifiers:
       -auto               boolean    Turn off prompts
       -stdout             boolean    Write first file to standard output
       -filter             boolean    Read first file from standard input, write
                                      first file to standard output
       -options            boolean    Prompt for standard and additional values
       -debug              boolean    Write debug output to program.dbg
       -verbose            boolean    Report some/full command line options
       -help               boolean    Report command line options and exit. More
                                      information on associated and general
                                      qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose
       -warning            boolean    Report warnings
       -error              boolean    Report errors
       -fatal              boolean    Report fatal errors
       -die                boolean    Report dying program messages
       -version            boolean    Report version number and exit

Qualifier | Type | Description | Allowed values | Default
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers
[-database] (Parameter 1) | infile | HMM database. | Input file | Required
Additional (Optional) qualifiers
(none)
Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers
(none)
Associated qualifiers
(none)
General qualifiers
-auto | boolean | Turn off prompts | Boolean value Yes/No | N
-stdout | boolean | Write first file to standard output | Boolean value Yes/No | N
-filter | boolean | Read first file from standard input, write first file to standard output | Boolean value Yes/No | N
-options | boolean | Prompt for standard and additional values | Boolean value Yes/No | N
-debug | boolean | Write debug output to program.dbg | Boolean value Yes/No | N
-verbose | boolean | Report some/full command line options | Boolean value Yes/No | Y
-help | boolean | Report command line options and exit. More information on associated and general qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose | Boolean value Yes/No | N
-warning | boolean | Report warnings | Boolean value Yes/No | Y
-error | boolean | Report errors | Boolean value Yes/No | Y
-fatal | boolean | Report fatal errors | Boolean value Yes/No | Y
-die | boolean | Report dying program messages | Boolean value Yes/No | Y
-version | boolean | Report version number and exit | Boolean value Yes/No | N

## Input file format

### Alignment and sequence formats

Input and output of alignments and sequences is limited to the formats that the original hmmer supports. These include stockholm, SELEX, MSF, Clustal, Phylip and A2M /aligned FASTA (alignments) and FASTA, GENBANK, EMBL, GCG, PIR (sequences). It would be fairly straightforward to adapt the code to support all EMBOSS-supported formats.

### Compressed input files

Automatic processing of gzipped files is not supported.

ehmmindex reads any normal sequence USAs.

## Output file format

ehmmindex outputs a graph to the specified graphics device. outputs a report format file. The default format is ...

### Output files for usage example

### File: myhmmso.ssi

This file contains non-printing characters and so cannot be displayed here.

### File: myhmmso

    HMMER2.0  [2.3.2]
    NAME  rrm
    LENG  77
    ALPH  Amino
    RF    no
    CS    no
    MAP   yes
    COM   /shared/software/bin/hmmbuild -n rrm --pbswitch 1000 --archpri 0.850000 --idlevel 0.620000 --swentry 0.500000 --swexit 0.500000 --wgsc -A -F myhmms ../../data/hmmnew/rrm.sto
    COM   /shared/software/bin/hmmcalibrate --mean 350.000000 --num 5000 --sd 350.000000 --seed 1 ../ehmmbuild-ex4-keep/myhmms
    NSEQ  90
    DATE  Thu Jan  7 16:51:40 2010
    CKSUM 8325
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    NULT      -4  -8455
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    //

## Data files

None.

## Notes

### 1. Command-line arguments

The following original HMMER options are not supported:

    -h         : Use -help to get help information instead.

### 2. Installing EMBASSY HMMER

The EMBASSY HMMER package contains "wrapper" applications providing an EMBOSS-style interface to the applications in the original HMMER package version 2.3.2 developed by Sean Eddy. Please read the file INSTALL in the EMBASSY HMMER package distribution for installation instructions.

### 3. Installing original HMMER

To use EMBASSY HMMER, you will first need to download and install the original HMMER package. Please read the file 00README in the the original HMMER package distribution for installation instructions:

    WWW home:       http://hmmer.wustl.edu/
    Distribution:   ftp://ftp.genetics.wustl.edu/pub/eddy/hmmer/

### 4. Setting up HMMER

For the EMBASSY HMMER package to work, the directory containing the original HMMER executables *must* be in your path. For example if you executables were installed to "/usr/local/hmmer/bin", then type:

    set path=(/usr/local/hmmer/bin/ $path)
    rehash

### 5. Getting help

Please read the Userguide.pdf distributed with the original HMMER and included in the EMBASSY HMMER distribution under the DOCS directory. The first 3 chapters (Introduction, Installation and Tutorial) are particularly useful.

Please read the 'Notes' section below for a description of the differences between the original and EMBASSY HMMER, particularly which application command line options are supported.

## References

None.

## Warnings

### Types of input data

hmmer v3.2.1 and therefore EMBASSY HMMER is only recommended for use with protein sequences. If you provide a non-protein sequence you will be reprompted for a protein sequence. To accept nucleic acid sequences you must replace instances of < type: "protein" > in the application ACD files with .

### Environment variables

The original hmmer uses BLAST environment variables (below), if defined, to locate files. The EMBASSY HMMER does not.

    BLASTDB   location of sequence databases to be searched
    BLASMAT   location of substitution matrices
    HMMERDB   location of HMMs

### Output file

The index file is hardcoded to database.ssi (where database is the name of the database that was indexed) and is written to the same directory as the input file. This behaviour could be changed in the future.

## Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

## Exit status

It always exits with status 0.

## Known bugs

None.

## See also

Program name | Description
--- | ---
ehmmalign | Align sequences to an HMM profile
ehmmbuild | Build a profile HMM from an alignment
ehmmcalibrate | Calibrate HMM search statistics
ehmmconvert | Convert between profile HMM file formats
ehmmemit | Generate sequences from a profile HMM
ehmmfetch | Retrieve an HMM from an HMM database
ehmmpfam | Search one or more sequences against an HMM database
ehmmsearch | Search a sequence database with a profile HMM
oalistat | Statistics for multiple alignment files
ohmmalign | Align sequences with an HMM
ohmmbuild | Build HMM
ohmmcalibrate | Calibrate a hidden Markov model
ohmmconvert | Convert between HMM formats
ohmmemit | Extract HMM sequences
ohmmfetch | Extract HMM from a database
ohmmindex | Index an HMM database
ohmmpfam | Align single sequence with an HMM
ohmmsearch | Search sequence database with an HMM

## Author(s)

This program is an EMBOSS conversion of a program written by Sean Eddy as part of his HMMER package.

Although we take every care to ensure that the results of the EMBOSS version are identical to those from the original package, we recommend that you check your inputs give the same results in both versions before publication.

Please report all bugs in the EMBOSS version to the EMBOSS bug team, not to the original author. Jon Ison (jison © ebi.ac.uk)
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

This program is an EMBASSY wrapper to a program written by Sean Eddy as part of his hmmer package.

Please report any bugs to the EMBOSS bug team in the first instance, not to Sean Eddy.

## History

## Target users

This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from naive users to embedded scripts.