Making Protein folding accessible to all!
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For details of what was changed in v1.5, see change log!
Notebooks | monomers | complexes | mmseqs2 | jackhmmer | templates |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AlphaFold2_mmseqs2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
AlphaFold2_batch | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
AlphaFold2 (from Deepmind) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
relax_amber (relax input structure) | |||||
ESMFold | Yes | Maybe | No | No | No |
BETA (in development) notebooks | |||||
RoseTTAFold2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | WIP |
OmegaFold | Yes | Maybe | No | No | No |
AlphaFold2_advanced_v2 (new experimental notebook) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Check the wiki page old retired notebooks for unsupported notebooks.
fingers-crossed
Tesla T4
or Tesla P100
with ~16G the max length is ~2000Tesla K80
with ~12G the max length is ~1000!nvidia-smi
cf.run_mmseqs2
) on a local computer?
spectrum b, red_yellow_green_cyan_blue, minimum=50, maximum=90
set_color n0, [0.051, 0.341, 0.827]
set_color n1, [0.416, 0.796, 0.945]
set_color n2, [0.996, 0.851, 0.212]
set_color n3, [0.992, 0.490, 0.302]
color n0, b < 100; color n1, b < 90
color n2, b < 70; color n3, b < 50
spectrum b, red_yellow_green_cyan_blue, minimum=0.5, maximum=0.9
For instructions on how to install ColabFold locally refer to localcolabfold or see our wiki on how to run ColabFold within Docker.
When you pass a FASTA or CSV file containing your sequences to colabfold_batch
it will automatically query the public MSA server to generate MSAs. You might want to split this into two steps for better GPU resource utilization:
# Query the MSA server and predict the structure on local GPU in one go:
colabfold_batch input_sequences.fasta out_dir
# Split querying MSA server and GPU predictions into two steps
colabfold_batch input_sequences.fasta out_dir --msa-only
colabfold_batch input_sequences.fasta out_dir
First create a directory for the databases on a disk with sufficient storage (940GB (!)). Depending on where you are, this will take a couple of hours:
Note: MMseqs2 71dd32ec43e3ac4dabf111bbc4b124f1c66a85f1
(May 28, 2023) is used to create the databases and perform sequece search in the ColabFold MSA server. Please use this version if you want to obtain the same MSAs as the server.
MMSEQS_NO_INDEX=1 ./setup_databases.sh /path/to/db_folder
If MMseqs2 is not installed in your PATH
, add --mmseqs <path to mmseqs>
to your mmseqs
in colabfold_search
:
# This needs a lot of CPU
colabfold_search --mmseqs /path/to/bin/mmseqs input_sequences.fasta /path/to/db_folder msas
# This needs a GPU
colabfold_batch msas predictions
This will create intermediate folder msas
that contains all input multiple sequence alignments formated as a3m files and a predictions
folder with all predicted pdb,json and png files.
The procedure above disables MMseqs2 preindexing of the various ColabFold databases by setting the MMSEQS_NO_INDEX=1
environment variable before calling the database setup script. For most use-cases of colabfold_search
precomputing the index is not required and might hurt search speed. The precomputed index is necessary for fast response times of the ColabFold server, where the whole database is permamently kept in memory. In any case the batch searches will require a machine with about 128GB RAM or, if the databases are to be kept permamently in RAM, with over 1TB RAM.
In some cases using precomputed database can still be useful. For the following cases, call the setup_databases.sh
script without the MMSEQS_NO_INDEX
environment variable:
(0) As mentioned above, if you want to set-up a server.
(1) If the precomputed index is stored on a very fast storage system (e.g., NVMe-SSDs) it might be faster to read the index from disk than computing in on the fly. In this case, the search should be performed on the same machine that called setup_databases.sh
since the precomputed index is created to fit within the given main memory size. Additionaly, pass the --db-load-mode 0
option to make sure the database is read once from the storage system before use.
(2) Fast single query searches require the full index (the .idx
files) to be kept in memory. This can be done with e.g. by using vmtouch. Thus, this type of search requires a machine with at least 768GB to 1TB RAM for the ColabfoldDB. If the index is present in memory, use the --db-load-mode 2
parameter in colabfold_search
to avoid index loading overhead.
If no index was created (MMSEQS_NO_INDEX=1
was set), then --db-load-mode
does not do anything and can be ignored.
OLD Updates
31Jul2023: 2023/07/31: The ColabFold MSA server is back to normal
It was using older DB (UniRef30 2202/PDB70 220313) from 27th ~8:30 AM CEST to 31st ~11:10 AM CEST.
27Jul2023: ColabFold MSA server issue:
We are using the backup server with old databases
(UniRef30 2202/PDB70 220313) starting from ~8:30 AM CEST until we resolve the issue.
Resolved on 31Jul2023 ~11:10 CEST.
12Jun2023: New databases! UniRef30 updated to 2302 and PDB to 230517.
We now use PDB100 instead of PDB70 (see notes in the [main](https://colabfold.com) notebook).
12Jun2023: We introduced a new default pairing strategy:
Previously, for multimer predictions with more than 2 chains,
we only pair if all sequences taxonomically match ("complete" pairing).
The new default "greedy" strategy pairs any taxonomically matching subsets.
30Apr2023: Amber is working again in our ColabFold Notebook
29Apr2023: Amber is not working in our Notebook due to Colab update
18Feb2023: v1.5.2 - fixing: fixing memory leak for large proteins
- fixing: --use_dropout (random seed was not changing between recycles)
06Feb2023: v1.5.1 - fixing: --save-all/--save-recycles
04Feb2023: v1.5.0 - ColabFold updated to use AlphaFold v2.3.1!
03Jan2023: The MSA server's faulty hardware from 12/26 was replaced.
There were intermittent failures on 12/26 and 1/3. Currently,
there are no known issues. Let us know if you experience any.
10Oct2022: Bugfix: random_seed was not being used for alphafold-multimer.
Same structure was returned regardless of defined seed. This
has been fixed!
13Jul2022: We have set up a new ColabFold MSA server provided by Korean
Bioinformation Center. It provides accelerated MSA generation,
we updated the UniRef30 to 2022_02 and PDB/PDB70 to 220313.
11Mar2022: We use in default AlphaFold-multimer-v2 weights for complex modeling.
We also offer the old complex modes "AlphaFold-ptm" or "AlphaFold-multimer-v1"
04Mar2022: ColabFold now uses a much more powerful server for MSAs and searches through the ColabFoldDB instead of BFD/MGnify.
Please let us know if you observe any issues.
26Jan2022: AlphaFold2_mmseqs2, AlphaFold2_batch and colabfold_batch's multimer complexes predictions are
now in default reranked by iptmscore*0.8+ptmscore*0.2 instead of ptmscore
16Aug2021: WARNING - MMseqs2 API is undergoing upgrade, you may see error messages.
17Aug2021: If you see any errors, please report them.
17Aug2021: We are still debugging the MSA generation procedure...
20Aug2021: WARNING - MMseqs2 API is undergoing upgrade, you may see error messages.
To avoid Google Colab from crashing, for large MSA we did -diff 1000 to get
1K most diverse sequences. This caused some large MSA to degrade in quality,
as sequences close to query were being merged to single representive.
We are working on updating the server (today) to fix this, by making sure
that both diverse and sequences close to query are included in the final MSA.
We'll post update here when update is complete.
21Aug2021 The MSA issues should now be resolved! Please report any errors you see.
In short, to reduce MSA size we filter (qsc > 0.8, id > 0.95) and take 3K
most diverse sequences at different qid (sequence identity to query) intervals
and merge them. More specifically 3K sequences at qid at (00.2),(0.20.4),
(0.40.6),(0.60.8) and (0.81). If you submitted your sequence between
16Aug2021 and 20Aug2021, we recommend submitting again for best results!
21Aug2021 The use_templates option in AlphaFold2_mmseqs2 is not properly working. We are
working on fixing this. If you are not using templates, this does not affect the
the results. Other notebooks that do not use_templates are unaffected.
21Aug2021 The templates issue is resolved!
11Nov2021 [AlphaFold2_mmseqs2] now uses Alphafold-multimer for complex (homo/hetero-oligomer) modeling.
Use [AlphaFold2_advanced] notebook for the old complex prediction logic.
11Nov2021 ColabFold can be installed locally using pip!
14Nov2021 Template based predictions works again in the Alphafold2_mmseqs2 notebook.
14Nov2021 WARNING "Single-sequence" mode in AlphaFold2_mmseqs2 and AlphaFold2_batch was broken
starting 11Nov2021. The MMseqs2 MSA was being used regardless of selection.
14Nov2021 "Single-sequence" mode is now fixed.
20Nov2021 WARNING "AMBER" mode in AlphaFold2_mmseqs2 and AlphaFold2_batch was broken
starting 11Nov2021. Unrelaxed proteins were returned instead.
20Nov2021 "AMBER" is fixed thanks to Kevin Pan