DPCfam Metaclusters
🧬 Domain Classification in Sequence SpaceThe DPCfam pipeline applied the Density Peak Clustering (DPC) algorithm to roughly 23 million UniRef50 sequences (UniRef50 v. 2017_07) and automatically grouped homologous domain segments into 81,384 protein families called metaclusters, entirely without manual curation. Each metacluster was then used to build a multiple sequence alignment and a profile-HMM for downstream analysis.
The table below lists all 81,384 DPCfam metaclusters by default. Use the toggle buttons above to switch to the Standard subset (size ≥ 50 seeds, 46,828 metaclusters) or the DPCfamB subset (25 to 49 seeds, 34,556 metaclusters). Intrinsic metacluster properties appear on the left; Pfam annotations on the right. Click any MCID to open its detail page.
| MCID | Size UniRef50 | Avg. Len. | Std avg len | % LC | % CC | % DIS | Avg. TM | Pfam DA | % DA | % Avg. Ov. | Overlap Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MC366774 | 26 | 109.19 | 5.08 | 0.02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | UNKNOWN | 0.0 | 0.0 | NONE |
| MC366782 | 48 | 134.71 | 11.25 | 0.07 | 0.0 | 0.75 | 2.06 | PF12679 | 84.21 | 53.23 | Reduced |
| MC366850 | 41 | 63.56 | 4.75 | 0.01 | 0.0 | 0.73 | 0.04 | UNKNOWN | 0.0 | 0.0 | NONE |
| MC366851 | 42 | 224.76 | 29.33 | 0.01 | 0.34 | 0.4 | 0.0 | PF10071 | 97.22 | 94.06 | Equivalent |
| MC366854 | 28 | 146.14 | 15.01 | 0.02 | 0.0 | 0.71 | 0.0 | PF04055 | 100.0 | 22.58 | Shifted |
| MC366926 | 30 | 141.73 | 14.19 | 0.03 | 0.0 | 5.46 | 0.68 | PF13517 | 4.17 | 24.29 | Extended |
| MC366968 | 28 | 78.04 | 10.51 | 0.01 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.27 | PF05427 | 96.15 | 28.93 | Reduced |
| MC366973 | 33 | 110.91 | 15.77 | 0.05 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.18 | UNKNOWN | 0.0 | 0.0 | NONE |
| MC366977 | 46 | 65.78 | 3.81 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.21 | 0.0 | PF18806 | 100.0 | 30.33 | Shifted |
| MC367009 | 33 | 128.36 | 11.44 | 0.01 | 0.0 | 6.38 | 0.0 | UNKNOWN | 0.0 | 0.0 | NONE |
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- A. Metacluster Intrinsic Properties:
- MCID: Unique identifier per metacluster.
- 1. Size UniRef50 : Number of UniRef50 seed sequences in the metacluster.
- 2. Avg. Len.: Mean domain length of the seeds (in amino acids).
- 3. Std. Avg. Len.: Standard deviation of seed domain lengths.
- 4. % LC Percent of residues located in low-complexity regions.
- 5. % CC: Percent of residues located in coiled-coil regions.
- 6. % DIS: Percent of residues predicted as intrinsically disordered.
- 7. Avg.TM: Average number of transmembrane regions per domain.
- B. Pfam Annotations:
- 1. Pfam DA: Pfam architecture which best overlaps with MC. We refer to it as the dominant architecture (DA). If there is no overlap, the MC is tagged as UNKNOWN (representing 'dark matter').
- 2. % DA: Percent of sequences in the MC matching the DA.
- 3. % Avg. Ov.: Average % boundary overlap between the MC and Pfam, computed only for seeds that match the DA.
- 4. Overlap Label: Label describing qualitatively the overlap of the MC with its DA, which can be : equivalent, reduced, extended or shifted. NONE, otherwise.
Color-coded based on boundary agreement:- Yellow (Equivalent): the MC and its dominant architecture share very similar boundaries.
- Blue (Reduced): the MC covers only part of the dominant architecture.
- Pink (Extended): the MC extends beyond the dominant architecture boundaries.
- Green (Shifted): the MC and the dominant architecture share a boundary offset, with poor positional agreement.