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Comparing two HMM profiles

Hi!

I have several HMM profiles of proteins generated from alignments using hmmbuild from hmmer package. How can I compare each vs. each?

Thank you in advance

hmm hmmer alignment sequence

1 answer

The Kullback-Leibler distance has often been used to compare HMMs but there are a number of other measures e.g. this paper or this one.

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