[chimerax-users] Questions on job status

[Elaine Meng]

HI WIll,
It would help if you would say what kind of job you submitted.  Modeller?  AlphaFold prediction? In either case you would normally keep the same ChimeraX session open and results would automatically open in ChimeraX when they return. If you quit out of ChimeraX while Modeller is still running, currently you can't get the results later.  If it seems to take a really long time, maybe it just failed and you should look in the Log to see if there was a message.  

AlphaFold prediction is different since it doesn't run on our website but instead on Google Colab.  If there were any results returned before you quit from ChimeraX, they should be in folders under ~/Downloads/ChimeraX/AlphaFold/ on your machine.  Maybe the Colab timed out before returning any results, however.  Even if you were trying to fill in just a few residues, if you were predicting the whole complex it is potentially a very long job.

For Alphafold predict, make sure you are using a recent ChimeraX daily build -- in mid-July we improved it to use ColabFold which is a much faster version.  Also in the last day or two, a new option to specify the results folder location was added.
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tools/alphafold.html#predict>
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/wiki/ChangeLog>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Aug 25, 2022, at 3:29 PM, Will Grubbe via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello, I've submitted a few jobs using ChimeraX and am wondering how to check the status of them. I just need to fill in a few residues in a protein complex with known sequence - where can I find the results when they are done? 
> Thank you for your help,
> Will