---
id: "pfam_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["science"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 85
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/pfam_id"
---

# Pfam family accession (`pfam_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Accession of a protein family or domain in Pfam, a collection of protein families described by multiple sequence alignments and hidden Markov models, now maintained within InterPro at EMBL-EBI. It is PF and five digits. Pfam clans, which group related families, have CL accessions and are not covered.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Scientific (science)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^PF\d{5}$
```

## Examples

- `PF00069` — Protein kinase domain
- `PF11779` — Small subunit of serine palmitoyltransferase-like; Bioregistry example
- `CL0192` (invalid example) — Pfam clan accession, not a family

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `pfam`
- wikidata: `P3519`

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/>
- other: <https://bioregistry.io/registry/pfam>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3519>

## Quality

Score 85/100. Missing: translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/pfam_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/science/pfam_id.yaml>