Join us for our weekly series of short talks: nf-core/bytesize.

Just 15 minutes + questions, we focus on topics about using and developing nf-core pipelines. These are recorded and made available at https://nf-co.re , helping to build an archive of training material. Got an idea for a talk? Let us know on the #bytesize Slack channel!

In this week’s bytesize talk, Evangelos (@vagkaratzas) is going to introduce the nf-core pipeline nf-core/proteinfamilies.

The nf-core/proteinfamilies pipeline generates protein families from amino acid sequences and/or updates existing families with new sequences. It takes a protein fasta file as input, clusters the sequences and then generates protein family Hiden Markov Models (HMMs) along with their multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). Optionally, paths to existing family HMMs and MSAs can be given in order to update with new sequences in case of matching hits.