HMMER version 3.5

[Augustin-Zidek]

Dear Sean and Nick,

I'm writing to express our team's interest in the next version of HMMER (v3.5, or v4.0 perhaps?).

Would you happen to have an estimated timeline for its release, or perhaps a general roadmap you'd be open to sharing? I understand that these things can be fluid though...

AlphaFold 3 would benefit quite a bit from many of the improvements in the develop branch and we are also eagerly waiting for EddyRivasLab/easel@c0497d2 and f3539f6 to land.

Let me know if there is any way we could also help with this.

Best Wishes,
Augustin

[cryptogenomicon]

Funding for the HMMER project has been terminated by the NIH as part of the mass termination of federal funding to Harvard. We do not have a timeline for future releases at this time.

[Artoria2e5]

Perhaps the AlphaFold team can use an untagged git version and cite the commit ID for the Methods section? Would be… interesting at least.

[cryptogenomicon]

That's a reasonable workaround for now. We have an existential crisis at Harvard to deal with at the moment, and will need to figure out how things go forward.