Pfam

database of protein families
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Pfam

Summary

Pfam is a biological database[1]. Pfam ranks in the top 7% of biological_database entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (49 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pfam's instance of is recorded as biological database[3].
  • Pfam's operator is recorded as EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute[4].
  • Pfam's copyright license is recorded as GNU Lesser General Public License[5].
  • Pfam's part of is recorded as ELIXIR EMBL-EBI Node[6].
  • Pfam's language of work or name is recorded as English[7].
  • Pfam's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09sz8b[8].
  • Pfam's official website is recorded as http://pfam.xfam.org/[9].
  • Pfam's readable file format is recorded as Stockholm format[10].
  • Pfam's described by source is recorded as Pfam: The protein families database in 2021[11].
  • Pfam's described by source is recorded as Q109302681[12].
  • Pfam's described by source is recorded as Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) database[13].
  • Pfam's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3519[14].
  • Pfam's identifiers.org prefix is recorded as pfam[15].
  • Pfam's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Biosciences databases[16].
  • Pfam's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[17].

Body

Geography

Pfam's part of is recorded as ELIXIR EMBL-EBI Node[6].

Designation and Status

Pfam's instance of is recorded as biological database[3].

Why It Matters

Pfam ranks in the top 7% of biological_database entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (49 views/month).[2] Pfam has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . doi.org. doi.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . elixir-europe.org. Retrieved . elixir-europe.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . elixir-europe.org. Retrieved . elixir-europe.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . bioregistry.io. bioregistry.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . oxfordjournals.org. oxfordjournals.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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