NAME

       hmmconvert - convert profile file to various formats

SYNOPSIS

       hmmconvert [options] hmmfile

DESCRIPTION

       The hmmconvert utility converts an input profile file to different HMMER formats.

       By  default,  the input profile can be in any HMMER format, including old/obsolete formats
       from HMMER2, ASCII or binary; the output profile is a current HMMER3 ASCII format.

       hmmfile may be '-' (dash), which means reading this input from stdin rather than a file.

OPTIONS

       -h     Help; print a brief reminder of command line usage and all available options.

       -a     Output profiles in ASCII text format. This is the default.

       -b     Output profiles in binary format.

       -2     Output in legacy HMMER2 ASCII text format, in ls (glocal) mode. This allows  HMMER3
              models  to  be  converted  back to a close approximation of HMMER2, for comparative
              studies.

       --outfmt <s>
              Output in a HMMER3 ASCII text format  other  then  the  most  current  one.   Valid
              choices  for  <s>  are 3/a through 3/f.  The current format is 3/f, and this is the
              default. The format 3/b was used in the official HMMER3  release,  and  the  others
              were used in the various testing versions.

SEE ALSO

       See  hmmer(1)  for  a  master  man  page  with  a list of all the individual man pages for
       programs in the HMMER package.

       For complete documentation, see the user guide that  came  with  your  HMMER  distribution
       (Userguide.pdf); or see the HMMER web page (http://hmmer.org/).

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2023 Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
       Freely distributed under the BSD open source license.

       For  additional  information  on copyright and licensing, see the file called COPYRIGHT in
       your HMMER source distribution, or see the HMMER web page (http://hmmer.org/).

AUTHOR

       http://eddylab.org

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