TIGRFAM

Introduction

The original TIGRFAMs database was a research project of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and its successor, the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) (Haft, Selengut, and White 2003). TIGRFAMs is a collection of manually curated protein families focusing primarily on prokaryotic sequences. It consists of hidden Markov models (HMMs), multiple sequence alignments, Gene Ontology (GO) terminology, Enzyme Commission (EC) numbers, gene symbols, protein family names, descriptive text, cross-references to related models in TIGRFAMs and other databases, and pointers to literature.

The TIGRFAMs database was transferred in April 2018 to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which now holds the creative commons license to this data and is responsible for maintaining and distributing this intellectual property. The database is used in NCBI’s Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline for GenBank and RefSeq sequence annotation, and curators continue to revise existing models.

Notice: Release 15.0 (January 2013) was the last full release of TIGRFAMs from JCVI and newer versions are maintained by NCBI. The up-to-date versions of all TIGRFAM models are available for download by FTP as a component of the current release of PGAP HMMs. They are recognizable by an accession number beginning with “TIGR”, or by the source designation “JCVI”

Installation

Available on crunchomics: Yes,

  • TIGRFAM is installed as part of the bioinformatics share. If you have access to crunchomics and have not yet access to the bioinformatics you can send an email with your Uva netID to Nina Dombrowski.

The TIGRFAMs database can be found here:

  • /zfs/omics/projects/bioinformatics/databases/tigrfam/release_15.0.

If you want to download the database yourself, you can do:

wget https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/hmm/TIGRFAMs/release_15.0/TIGRFAMs_15.0_HMM.LIB.gz
gzip -d TIGRFAMs_15.0_HMM.LIB.gz

To get a linking of TIGRFAM ID to function, use this page

References

Haft, Daniel H., Jeremy D. Selengut, and Owen White. 2003. “The TIGRFAMs Database of Protein Families.” Nucleic Acids Research 31 (1): 371–73. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkg128.