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AlphaFold Databases

AlphaFold requires some databases to run. These databases may be different depending on the version of AlphaFold being used. These have been downloaded to Picotte in:

/beegfs/AlphaFoldDatabases (for AlphaFold 2.2.4) /beegfs/AlphaFoldDatabases-2-3-1 (for AlphaFold 2.3.1)

Rather than using the actual path, the AlphaFold modulefile defines the environment variable ALPHAFOLD_DATADIR correctly for the version of AlphaFold being used.

UniProt

The UniProt database contains too many files to be stored on either of Picotte's storage systems. Instead, the UniProt API should be used for programmatic access to only the data needed.

For info on programmatic access to UniProt, see this video seminar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2g3nFhZkzo

and written documentation:

https://www.uniprot.org/help/api