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How To Implement Profile Hmm In Own Web-Based Tool?

Hi, I am not so expert in programming. I have some protein families. I want to create a local HMMER like webserver/tool and implement hmmsearch in it. Please suggest me how can I implement this?

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Do you really need the tool to be web accessible? HMMER3 is completely runable from the command line. You simply need to download it and install it. Otherwise all a website is in this case is a front-end for providing data, setting options, passing them to the command-line tool, and then reading the results back and displaying them. In which case I would recommend reading some basic web-building tutorials.

Here are a few examples of questions on stackoverflow with people wanting to build relatively simple web interfaces to python scripts, etc:

Example 1 Example 2

Like I said, there is nothing special about implementing a web interface. If you need users to be able to use it is is certainly convenient. You'll need to do some reading and practicing about writing basic web-pages, in particular using forms, check boxes, etc to send what would normally be command-line parameters and data to the program. Then running the program and parsing the results.

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