Re: [modeller_usage] The number of the models

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 10:05:52AM -0500, Thomas Duncan wrote: > I believe that, when MODELLER starts any partcular model (each from a > different randomly perturbed version of the starting model (.ini), it will > abort that model if the scoring function exceeds some upper limit. Thus, you > may get fewer than the total models requested if this occurs.

The call to WRITE_MODEL should happen regardless of the energy function; see the __single_model.top script. The optimization itself may fail (see the single_model_pass subroutine in the same script) but if that occurs, you should see some explanatory output in the .log file. See also http://salilab.org/modeller/manual/node115.html

Ben Webb, Modeller Caretaker