MMseqs2
Very fast sequence search and clustering, the MSA engine behind ColabFold.
Steinegger and Söding labs
What it does
Sequence search and clustering at scale. Input: query and target FASTA/databases; output: homology hits, clusters and MSA profiles in minutes where BLAST takes days - the MSA engine behind ColabFold.
Commercial use
Commercial use OKLicence as writtenMIT License
LICENSE.md in the repo is 'The MIT License (MIT)'.
The licence read at the source allows use by a company. Attribution or copyleft conditions may still apply — read the note.
Is commercial use free of charge?
Free for commercial useNothing to pay: the licence read at the source grants commercial use with no fee, and the code and weights are public downloads. You still pay for your own compute.
Price and rights are separate: this panel is about money, the panel above is about permission.
When to use it
Use to build your own MSAs or cluster large sequence sets locally instead of hitting public servers. Needs lots of RAM and disk for big databases.
Facts
- Maker
- Steinegger and Söding labs
- Cost for commercial use
- Free for commercial use
- Category
- Data and structure resources
- Compute
- CPU
- Open weights
- Yes
- Licence
- MIT License
- Official site / repo
- github.com/soedinglab/MMseqs2
- Paper
- nature.com
- Last verified
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