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closeUnclear how to easily get 'Edit' user status to be able to use this tool
Posted by jfoerster on 08 Feb 2024 at 20:06 GMT
Hello,
I've read through your article and thought I'd give it a try. The abstract states: "allows non-computational biologists to easily utilize advanced AI-based structural biology tools,"
well, according to that, the whole point of this would be that, for such non-computational biologist (such as myself) you could go to this site and do what you would otherwise have to do on a Colab notebook and then exporting the PDB's and go elsewhere.
However, when trying to register, I am told:
"Users at LBL have editor permission to this Foldy instance, all others have viewer permissions. Your account [..] cannot submit your own compute jobs."
well, sorry to be frank but: that's useless (and I'm sure other potential users would agree).
then you say: "See the Foldy manuscript and codebase to set up a Foldy instance at your institution!" I have - twice- read through the manuscript and it does NOT say: "this is what you have to do to get a user status allowing you to submit job.'
And "see the codebase" is exactly what a non-computational biologist would not find easy.
so, unless users could upload their PDBs or submit jobs, this is pretty pointless- at least it does NOT help to simplify structural work for non-computational biologists and I suggest you re-write the Abstract to spare others the frustration:
"after registering to Foldy you will NOT be able to upload PDB's or generate them using Alphafold etc. You will have to get assistance by some knowledgeable person at your institution to sift through the codebase to see if /how that would be doable."