Beginning yesterday, I have had repeated failure of alphafold2_multimer running through chimerax to generate models of two protein complexes (Ab H cand L chains, for instance). Individual chains work fine. The error from Colab AI says:
The error is due to a bug in the ColabFold library. The kabsch function
in the colabfold.py file is using the linalg.svd function
to calculate the singular value decomposition of a matrix. However, the linalg.svd function is not guaranteed to converge,
and in some cases it can fail to converge. This can cause the kabsch function to fail, and in turn cause the plot_protein_backbone function
to fail.
The bug has been fixed in the latest version of the ColabFold library, which is available on GitHub. To fix the error, you can upgrade to the latest version of the library. You can do this by running
the following command in the Colab notebook:
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!pip install colabfold --upgrade
Once you have upgraded to the latest version of the library, you can run the code again and the error should be fixed.
Can you advise? Thanks for your help.
D
David H. Margulies, MD, PhD
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Laboratory of Immune System Biology
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