Pfam Get Family Detail
Get detailed information about a specific Pfam protein family by accession. Returns the full family name, short name, description, type (domain/family/repeat), protein/structure/taxa counts, clan (superfamily) membership, representative 3D structure, Wikipedia link, and GO terms. Pfam families are the fundamental units of protein classification - for example PF00001 (7tm_1) covers the rhodopsin-like GPCR superfamily with 432,000+ proteins, while PF00076 (RRM_1) is the RNA recognition motif foun…
Overview
Get detailed information about a specific Pfam protein family by accession. Returns the full family name, short name, description, type (domain/family/repeat), protein/structure/taxa counts, clan (superfamily) membership, representative 3D structure, Wikipedia link, and GO terms. Pfam families are the fundamental units of protein classification - for example PF00001 (7tm_1) covers the rhodopsin-like GPCR superfamily with 432,000+ proteins, while PF00076 (RRM_1) is the RNA recognition motif found in 627,000+ proteins. Use this to understand what a Pfam family represents and its biological significance.
Status
The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.
- Last probed
- 1d ago
- Last success
- 1d ago
- Last latency
- 93ms
Schema
JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.
{
"properties": {
"pfam_accession": {
"description": "Pfam family accession. Examples: 'PF00001' (7tm_1, GPCR rhodopsin family), 'PF00076' (RRM_1, RNA recognition motif), 'PF00069' (Pkinase), 'PF00096' (zf-C2H2, zinc finger).",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"pfam_accession"
],
"type": "object"
}Examples (1)
Default Pfam Get Family Detail call
{
"pfam_accession": "P38398"
}Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.
Identifiers
- Catalog ID
- tu_Pfam_get_family_detail
- Tool name
- Pfam_get_family_detail
- Added
- 2026-05-01 00:58Z
- Tags
- tooluniverse