HMMER was developed at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK, while I was a postdoc with Dr. Richard Durbin. I thank the Human Frontier Science Program and the National Institutes of Health for their support.
The MRC-LMB computational molecular biology discussion group has contributed many ideas. In particular, I thank Richard Durbin, Graeme Mitchison, Erik Sonnhammer, Gos Micklem, Tim Hubbard, Roger Sewall, David MacKay, and Cyrus Chothia. Any errors in the code, though, are my fault alone.
Sequence format parsing ( sqio.c) in HMMER is derived from an early release of the READSEQ package by Don Gilbert, Indiana University. Thanks to Don for an excellent piece of software; and apologies for the mangling I've put it through since.