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HHBLITS(1) User Commands HHBLITS(1)

NAME

hhblits - fast homology detection method to iteratively search a HMM database

SYNOPSIS

hhblits -i query [options]

DESCRIPTION

HHblits 3.3.0: HMM-HMM-based lightning-fast iterative sequence search HHblits is a sensitive, general-purpose, iterative sequence search tool that represents both query and database sequences by HMMs. You can search HHblits databases starting with a single query sequence, a multiple sequence alignment (MSA), or an HMM. HHblits prints out a ranked list of database HMMs/MSAs and can also generate an MSA by merging the significant database HMMs/MSAs onto the query MSA.

Steinegger M, Meier M, Mirdita M, V??hringer H, Haunsberger S J, and S??ding J (2019) HH-suite3 for fast remote homology detection and deep protein annotation. BMC Bioinformatics, doi:10.1186/s12859-019-3019-7 (c) The HH-suite development team

input/query: single sequence or multiple sequence alignment (MSA) in a3m, a2m, or FASTA format, or HMM in hhm format

<file> may be 'stdin' or 'stdout' throughout.

OPTIONS

database name (e.g. uniprot20_29Feb2012) Multiple databases may be specified with '-d <db1> -d <db2> ...'
[1,8] number of iterations (default=2)
[0,1] E-value cutoff for inclusion in result alignment (def=0.001)

Input alignment format:

use A2M/A3M (default): upper case = Match; lower case = Insert;
' -' = Delete; '.' = gaps aligned to inserts (may be omitted)
use FASTA: columns with residue in 1st sequence are match states
use FASTA: columns with fewer than X% gaps are match states
do NOT / do neutralize His-, C-myc-, FLAG-tags, and trypsin recognition sequence to background distribution (def=-notags)

Output options:

write results in standard format to file (default=<infile.hhr>)
write result MSA with significant matches in a3m format
write result MSA of significant matches in PSI-BLAST format
write HHM file for result MSA of significant matches
write MSAs in A3M format after each iteration

-blasttab <name> write result in tabular BLAST format (compatible to -m 8 or -outfmt 6 output)

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'query target #match/tLen #mismatch #gapOpen qstart qend tstart tend eval score'
generate consensus sequence as master sequence of query MSA (default=don't)
don't show consensus sequence in alignments (default=show)
don't show predicted 2ndary structure in alignments (default=show)
don't show DSSP 2ndary structure in alignments (default=show)
show confidences for predicted 2ndary structure in alignments
write pairwise alignments in FASTA xor A2M (-Oa2m) xor A3M (-Oa3m) format
max. number of query/template sequences displayed (default=1)
number of columns per line in alignment list (default=80)
minimum probability in summary and alignment list (default=20)
maximum E-value in summary and alignment list (default=1E+06)
maximum number of lines in summary hit list (default=500)
minimum number of lines in summary hit list (default=10)
maximum number of alignments in alignment list (default=500)
minimum number of alignments in alignment list (default=10)

Prefilter options

disable all filter steps
disable all filter steps (except for fast prefiltering)
max number of hits allowed to pass 2nd prefilter (default=20000)
min number of hits to pass prefilter (default=100)
min score threshold of ungapped prefilter (default=10)
max E-value threshold of Smith-Waterman prefilter score (default=1000.0)
prefilter scores are in units of 1 bit / pre_bitfactor (default=4)
gap open penalty in prefilter Smith-Waterman alignment (default=20)
gap extend penalty in prefilter Smith-Waterman alignment (default=4)
offset on sequence profile scores in prefilter S-W alignment (default=50)

Filter options applied to query MSA, database MSAs, and result MSA

show all sequences in result MSA; do not filter result MSA

-interim_filter NONE|FULL

filter sequences of query MSA during merging to avoid early stop (default: FULL)
NONE: disables the intermediate filter FULL: if an early stop occurs compare filter seqs in an all vs. all comparison
[0,100] maximum pairwise sequence identity (def=90)
filter MSAs by selecting most diverse set of sequences, keeping at least this many seqs in each MSA block of length 50 Zero and non-numerical values turn off the filtering. (def=1000)
[0,100] minimum coverage with master sequence (%) (def=0)
[0,100] minimum sequence identity with master sequence (%) (def=0)
[0,100] minimum score per column with master sequence (default=-20.0)
target diversity of multiple sequence alignment (default=off)
do not filter out sequences marked by ">@"in their name line

HMM-HMM alignment options:

do NOT realign displayed hits with MAC algorithm (def=realign)
realign hits from previous iterations
posterior prob threshold for MAC realignment controlling greediness at alignment ends: 0:global >0.1:local (default=0.35)
use global/local alignment mode for searching/ranking (def=local)
realign displayed hits with max. accuracy (MAC) algorithm
realign max. <int> hits (default=500)
banded alignment: forbid <ovlp> largest diagonals |i-j| of DP matrix (def=0)
show up to this many alternative alignments with raw score > smin(def=4)

-premerge <int> merge <int> hits to query MSA before aligning remaining hits (def=3)

minimum raw score for alternative alignments (def=20.0)
profile-profile score offset (def=-0.03)
weight of term for pair correlations (def=0.10)
<int> amino acid score (tja: template HMM at column j) (def=1)
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= log2 Sum(tja*qia/pa) (pa: aa background frequencies)
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= log2 Sum(tja*qia/pqa) (pqa = 1/2*(pa+ta) )
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= log2 Sum(tja*qia/ta) (ta: av. aa freqs in template)
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= log2 Sum(tja*qia/qa) (qa: av. aa freqs in query)
5
local amino acid composition correction
0: no ss scoring 1,2: ss scoring after or during alignment [default=2] 3,4: ss scoring after or during alignment, predicted vs. predicted
weight of ss score (def=0.11)
ss confusion matrix = (1-ssa)*I + ssa*psipred-confusion-matrix [def=1.00)
use global sequence weighting for realignment!

Gap cost options:

Transition pseudocount admixture (def=1.00)
Transition pseudocount admixture for open gap (default=0.15)
Transition pseudocount admixture for extend gap (def=1.00)
factor to increase/reduce gap open penalty for deletes (def=0.60)
factor to increase/reduce gap open penalty for inserts (def=0.60)
factor to increase/reduce gap extend penalty for deletes(def=0.60)
factor to increase/reduce gap extend penalty for inserts(def=0.60)
[0,inf[ penalty (bits) for end gaps aligned to query residues (def=0.00)
[0,inf[ penalty (bits) for end gaps aligned to template residues (def=0.00)

Pseudocount (pc) options:

Context specific hhm pseudocounts:
position dependence of pc admixture 'tau' (pc mode, default=2)
0: no pseudo counts:
tau = 0
1: constant
tau = a
2: diversity-dependent: tau = a/(1+((Neff[i]-1)/b)^c) 3: CSBlast admixture: tau = a(1+b)/(Neff[i]+b) (Neff[i]: number of effective seqs in local MSA around column i)
[0,1] overall pseudocount admixture (def=0.9)
[1,inf[ Neff threshold value for mode 2 (def=4.0)
[0,3] extinction exponent c for mode 2 (def=1.0)
Context independent hhm pseudocounts (used for templates; used for query if contxt file is not available):
position dependence of pc admixture 'tau' (pc mode, default=2)
0: no pseudo counts:
tau = 0
1: constant
tau = a
2: diversity-dependent: tau = a/(1+((Neff[i]-1)/b)^c) (Neff[i]: number of effective seqs in local MSA around column i)
[0,1] overall pseudocount admixture (def=1.0)
[1,inf[ Neff threshold value for mode 2 (def=1.5)
[0,3] extinction exponent c for mode 2 (def=1.0)
Context specific prefilter pseudocounts:
position dependence of pc admixture 'tau' (pc mode, default=3)
0: no pseudo counts:
tau = 0
1: constant
tau = a
2: diversity-dependent: tau = a/(1+((Neff[i]-1)/b)^c) 3: CSBlast admixture: tau = a(1+b)/(Neff[i]+b) (Neff[i]: number of effective seqs in local MSA around column i)
[0,1] overall pseudocount admixture (def=0.8)
[1,inf[ Neff threshold value for mode 2 (def=2.0)
[0,3] extinction exponent c for mode 2 (def=1.0)
Context independent prefilter pseudocounts (used if context file is not available):
position dependence of pc admixture 'tau' (pc mode, default=2)
0: no pseudo counts:
tau = 0
1: constant
tau = a
2: diversity-dependent: tau = a/(1+((Neff[i]-1)/b)^c) (Neff[i]: number of effective seqs in local MSA around column i)
[0,1] overall pseudocount admixture (def=1.0)
[1,inf[ Neff threshold value for mode 2 (def=1.5)
[0,3] extinction exponent c for mode 2 (def=1.0)
Context-specific pseudo-counts:
use substitution-matrix instead of context-specific pseudocounts

-contxt <file> context file for computing context-specific pseudocounts (default=)

[0,inf] weight of central position in cs pseudocount mode (def=1.6)
[0,1] weight decay parameter for positions in cs pc mode (def=0.9)

Other options:

verbose mode: 0:no screen output 1:only warings 2: verbose (def=2)

-neffmax ]1,20] skip further search iterations when diversity Neff of query MSA

becomes larger than neffmax (default=20.0)
number of CPUs to use (for shared memory SMPs) (default=2)

-scores <file> write scores for all pairwise comparisons to file

-filter_matrices filter matrices for similarity to output at most 100 matrices

<file> write all alignments in tabular layout to file
max number of input rows (def=65535)
max number of HMM columns (def=20001)

-maxmem [1,inf[ limit memory for realignment (in GB) (def=3.0)

EXAMPLES

hhblits -i query.fas -o query.hhr -d ./uniclust30

hhblits -i query.fas -o query.hhr -oa3m query.a3m -n 1 -d ./uniclust30

Download databases from <http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~compbiol/data/hhsuite/databases/hhsuite_dbs/>.

January 2023 hhblits 3.3.0+ds