The Pfam database contains information about protein domains and families. For each entry a protein sequence alignment and a Hidden Markov Model is stored.

Prefix
pfam
Alternative Prefixes
PF
Keywords
biology domain protein
Links
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Contact
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Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Pfam should match this regular expression:
^PF\d{5}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
PF11779   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Pfam should match this regular expression:
^pfam:PF\d{5}$

Example CURIE
pfam:PF11779
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Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Provided By
pandit
Metaregistry Pfam

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 13 mappings to external registries for this resource with 7 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BioContext biocontext PFAM
EDAM EDAM Ontology logo edam 1138
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.y3scf6
GO Gene Ontology Registry logo go Pfam
Integbio Integbio logo integbio nbdc00163
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam pfam
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t pfam
NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information Registry logo ncbi PFAM
Prefix Commons Prefix Commons logo prefixcommons pfam
re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories logo re3data r3d100012850
TogoID togoid Pfam
UniProt UniProt Cross-ref database logo uniprot DB-0073
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P3519
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier PF11779 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Pfam. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Pfam pfam https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/entry/pfam/PF11779
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/pfam:PF11779
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/pfam:PF11779
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/pfam:PF11779
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.

Code Name URL
bio2rdf Bio2RDF http://bio2rdf.org/pfam:PF11779
sanger Sanger Pfam Mirror http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/family?entry=PF11779
xfam Xfam https://pfam.xfam.org/family?acc=PF11779