I'm looking at the outputs of psi-Blast and HHBlits - each produces a PSSM file, but in different formats, with different numbers. I was wondering if there's a simple one-to-one correspondence between the two (i.e. is it possible to interconvert), or if there's information in one that is not in the other. From David Jones' 1999 JMB paper (Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Based on Position-specific Scoring Matrices) I can get a good idea of the contents of the psi-Blast file, but I haven't managed to get a propr description of the MTX file from HHBLits.
From looking at files produced from the same (or what I hope is the same) comparison, the order of the columns is different (alphabetic according to 3-letter code in psi-Blast, alphabetic according to 1-letter code in HHBlits), but the numbers are quite different; the first group of values in the psi-Blast are related to BLOSUM matrix scores (e.g. -7 -7 -8 -9 -7 -6...) but in HHBlits there are three columnss (that don't seem to be directly to do with the comparison (I must be missing something here)) then 20 columns that look like they are scores (e.g. [re-ordered to three-letter-alphabetic] -300 0 -100 200 0 100...) then 3 more columns at the end that always seem to be "-32768 -32768 -32768".
I suppose my real question is - can I produce a pseudo-psi-Blast style PSSM file from an HHBlits-style MTX file - but I'm also interested in a fuller description of what's actually in the files. There must be resources somewhere that describe them - but I haven't managed to find them!
