---
name: "hmmconvert"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "hmmer"
version: "3.4+dfsg-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hmmconvert"
---

# hmmconvert(1)

convert profile file to various formats

## NAME

hmmconvert - convert profile file to various formats

## SYNOPSIS

**hmmconvert** \[*options*\] *hmmfile*

## DESCRIPTION

The **hmmconvert** utility converts an input profile file to different HMMER formats.

By default, the input profile can be in any HMMER format, including old/obsolete formats from HMMER2, ASCII or binary; the output profile is a current HMMER3 ASCII format.

*hmmfile* may be '-' (dash), which means reading this input from stdin rather than a file.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**

  Help; print a brief reminder of command line usage and all available options.

- **-a**

  Output profiles in ASCII text format. This is the default.

- **-b**

  Output profiles in binary format.

- **-2**

  Output in legacy HMMER2 ASCII text format, in ls (glocal) mode. This allows HMMER3 models to be converted back to a close approximation of HMMER2, for comparative studies.

- **--outfmt** *\<s\>*

  Output in a HMMER3 ASCII text format other then the most current one. Valid choices for  *\<s\>* are **3/a** through **3/f**. The current format is **3/f**, and this is the default. The format **3/b** was used in the official HMMER3 release, and the others were used in the various testing versions.

## SEE ALSO

See  [**hmmer**(1)](/hmmer/1.md) for a master man page with a list of all the individual man pages for programs in the HMMER package.

For complete documentation, see the user guide that came with your HMMER distribution (Userguide.pdf); or see the HMMER web page (http://hmmer.org/).

## COPYRIGHT

```
Copyright (C) 2023 Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Freely distributed under the BSD open source license.
```

For additional information on copyright and licensing, see the file called COPYRIGHT in your HMMER source distribution, or see the HMMER web page  (http://hmmer.org/).

## AUTHOR

```
http://eddylab.org
```

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