[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [modeller_usage] How to generate Homology models using a computer farm

On 5/10/10 1:19 PM, Caio Veloso wrote:

In order to build several models of a target protein, we are running
the same Python script on different computers at the same time.

...

we discovered that MODELLER has built the same models, in the same
order on all computers.

Indeed, because Modeller is deterministic, and gives reproducable results.


I want know whether exist some parameters that could be adjusted at
the Python script, (a kind of random number generator ?) in order to
assure that different sets of models will be generate on each
computer?

You need to set rand_seed to a different value on each machine -
something like -2 - (number of machine) should do the trick:
http://salilab.org/modeller/9v8/manual/node110.html

	Ben Webb, Modeller Caretaker
--
modeller-care@salilab.org             http://www.salilab.org/modeller/
Modeller mail list: http://salilab.org/mailman/listinfo/modeller_usage