Help ==== These help pages are primarily designed to give users a very brief introduction to HMMER, sufficient such that the user will have a better understanding of the website search methods and results. They do not describe the details of profile hidden Markov models (HMMs) in the use of sequence analysis. -------- Helpdesk -------- Your questions are important to us. Please contact us through our contact form at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/support/hmmer. We will respond as quickly as possible, but please bear in mind that we do not have a dedicated staff member to run the helpesk. **Software bug** reports will typically be dealt with by **Sean Eddy**, but may get deferred to others within the HMMER project team. (See http://hmmer.org/documentation.html) To expedite our response to your questions, please provide us with as much information as possible so that we can recreate the problem. Useful things to include are: * Input data (or examples, but just sufficient to recreate the problem). * The URL of the page where you are having the problem. * The steps to follow to reproduce the problem. * Information about the browser that you are using and it version, and also the OS you are running. ---------------- Staying informed ---------------- The target databases are updated on a monthly basis. Additionally there will be bug fixes and new website features. To keep up to date with these, see one of the following: * :ref:`Changelog` - lists new features, bug fixes and improvements made to the site. * Bluesky - follow `@hmmer.bsky.social `_ for micro-blogs about the HMMER software updates, target database updates and new Web features. * `Cryptogenomicon blog`_ - more detailed discussions of HMMER related topics, including the website. .. _Cryptogenomicon blog: https://cryptogenomicon.org/