Example Requests#

OpenFold2 NIM provides the following endpoint:

  • biology/openfold/openfold2/predict-structure-from-msa-and-template: Perform structure prediction from an input MSA and templates.

Usage#

Below, we give real examples of requests that should run when the NIM is correctly configured.

Note: We do not recommend submitting requests to this endpoint using the tool, curl, as its inputs have characters that require careful escaping in bash. We recommend interacting with this endpoint using the Python request module.

Predict Structure#

The endpoint accepts requests where the data is formatted as in the OpenApI Specification

Here is an example request using the Python requests module.

  • The field sequence is required.

  • The field alignments is optional, but omission can result in inaccurate structures. If included, the MSA content must be in a3m format.

  • The field selected_models is optional, but included here to reduce runtime, since the default specifies 5 models.

  • If you want to include templates, they must be in hhr format.

The following workflow is recommended when predicting structures for a given protein sequence.

  1. Use other tools to produce multiple-sequence-alignments, and to put them in the a3m format.

  2. Use other tools, and potentially the MSA results from step 1 to generate template search results in an hhr file

  3. Load the a3m files and hhr files, in a Python script, and format the request as specified in the Open API specifications, included at the end of this documentation.

import os
import requests
import json

# --------------------------------
# parameters
# --------------------------------
url = "http://localhost:8000/biology/openfold/openfold2/predict-structure-from-msa-and-template"
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}
sequence = (
    "GGSKENEISHHAKEIERLQKEIERHKQSIKKLKQSEQSNPPPNP"
    "EGTRQARRNRRRRWRERQRQKENEISHHAKEIERLQKEIERHKQSIKKLKQSEC"
)    
uniref90_alignment_in_a3m_trunc10=\
""">BQXYMDHSRWGGVPIWVK
GGSKENEISHHAKEIERLQKEIERHKQSIKKLKQSEQSNPPPNPEGTRQARRNRRRRWRERQRQKENEISHHAKEIERLQKEIERHKQSIKKLKQSEC
>UniRef90_A0A221IUG4
--------------------------QTVKLVKRLYQSNPPPNPEGTRQARRNRRRRWRERQRQ----------------------------------
>UniRef90_A7KWE0
---------------------------TVRLIKQLYQSNPPPNPEGTRQARRNRRRRWRERQRQ----------------------------------
>UniRef90_A0A2I6UE91
---------------------------TVKLIKEIYQSNPPPNPEGTRQARRNRRRRWRERQRQ----------------------------------
>UniRef90_D6NY33
---------------------------AVRLIKQIYQSNPPPNPEGTRQARRNRRRRWRERQRQ----------------------------------
>UniRef90_A0A221IUJ5
--------------------------QTVKLIKRLYQSNPPPNPEGTRQARRNRRRRWREKQRQ----------------------------------
>UniRef90_D6NYR3
---------------------------TVRLVKQLYQSNPPPNPEGTRQARRNRRRRWRERQRQ----------------------------------
>UniRef90_I6Y2C4
---------------------------TVRLIKRIYQSNPPPNPEGTRQARRNRRRRWRERQRQIQN-------------------------------
>UniRef90_A0A161CVP3
--------------------------QTIRLIKLLYQSNPPPNPEGTRQARRNRRRRWRERQRQ----------------------------------
>UniRef90_Q6EFX9
--------------------------QTVRLIKLLYQSNPPPNPEGTRQARRNRRRRWRERQRQ----------------------------------
>UniRef90_A0A2I6UAR5
--------------------------ETVKIIKYLYQSNPPPNPEGTRQARRNRRRRWRERQRQ----------------------------------
"""
small_bfd_alignment_in_a3m = \
""">BQXYMDHSRWGGVPIWVK
GGSKENEISHHAKEIERLQKEIERHKQSIKKLKQSEQSNPPPNPEGTRQARRNRRRRWRERQRQKENEISHHAKEIERLQKEIERHKQSIKKLKQSEC
>A0A076V4A1_9HIV1
------------------------------------QSNPPPNHEGTRQARRNRRRRWRERQRQ----------------------------------
"""

# --------------------------------
# assemble request content
# --------------------------------
data = { 
    "sequence": sequence,
    "selected_models": [1, 2],
    "alignments": {
        "uniref90": {
            "a3m": {
                "alignment": uniref90_alignment_in_a3m_trunc10, 
                "format": "a3m",
            }
        },
        "small_bfd": {
            "a3m": {
                "alignment": small_bfd_alignment_in_a3m,
                "format": "a3m",
            }
        }
    },
}

# --------------------------------
# post-to-server
# --------------------------------
response = requests.post(
    url=url, 
    data=json.dumps(data), 
    headers=headers,
    timeout=300,
)
# Check if the request was successful
if response.ok:
    print("Request succeeded:", response.json())
else:
    print("Request failed:", response.status_code, response.text)

The runtime for structure prediction is impacted by both sequence length and the number of sequences in the multiple-sequence-alignment. On an `NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3’ device, this example should complete in under 30 seconds.

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