Powering down the Pfam website

[boneta]

It seems that the Pfam web site is closing down soon.

On October 5th, we will start redirecting the traffic from Pfam (pfam.xfam.org) to InterPro (www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro). The Pfam website will be available at legacy.pfam.xfam.org until January 2023, when it will be decommissioned. You can read more about the sunset period in our blog post.

Then, I suppose that the ProDy methods to retrieve data from Pfam will no longer be functional. To continue giving support for this useful feature the IterPro API can be used.

In the case of adding a new module to ProDy for parsing InterPro, the old Pfam could make use of it and so maintaining the retro-compatibility for the current users.

[jamesmkrieger]

Thanks for the information. We’ll see what we can do.

If you can help at all, that would be great

[AmiteshBadkul]

Hi @jamesmkrieger, maybe the legacy version of the website (https://pfam-legacy.xfam.org/) could be used as a temporary fix (as the legacy version of the website will be taken down by Jan 2023).

[jamesmkrieger]

Ok. Thanks

[jamesmkrieger]

This temporary fix is now working and merged. You can now use pfam through the legacy website with the github master version of ProDy

Hi @jamesmkrieger, maybe the legacy version of the website (https://pfam-legacy.xfam.org/) could be used as a temporary fix (as the legacy version of the website will be taken down by Jan 2023).

[jamesmkrieger]

Update: we now have until the spring:

InterPro is the new home of Pfam
The Pfam website (pfam.xfam.org) was shut down on October 5th, but InterPro offers the same functionality and data.
A legacy version of Pfam is available at https://pfam-legacy.xfam.org/ but will not receive any updates and will be decommissioned in Spring 2023.

(https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/)

[jamesmkrieger]

The Interpro API doesn't seem to have quite as right a functionality as the pfam one, but maybe I haven't quite found everything. Nevertheless, I am making progress at porting over the functions to continue working well enough.

Best wishes James

[jamesmkrieger]

I think this is essentially solved now.

I will have to go over things one more time to double check and clean up, but I think we can now use EBI sites to handle all the functionality that we have.

[jamesmkrieger]

Actually, as all the tests pass, I'm merging the pull request and the latest changes will be able in ProDy from Github and any release we make, which will probably be within the next few months.