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