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Accession numbers for MSA

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Hi!
I am currently exploring the behaviour of ColabFold with different custom MSAs and was hoping to explore which sequences are ending up in the MMSeqs MSAs a little more closely. After unpickling the msa.pickle file that ColabFold_advanced outputs, I only see a dictionary with entries for "msas" and "deletion_matrices".

  • Is this the expected behaviour?
  • If so, is there any way of getting the program to also output accession numbers/DB IDs for the sequences in the MMSeqs MSA.

Apologies if this has been addressed elsewhere.

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Start by inspecting the unpickled msa.pickle output from ColabFold_advanced and tracing how the MMSeqs MSAs are produced. Determine whether accession numbers or database IDs are retained, then define completion as either documenting the expected dictionary contents or exposing those identifiers alongside the sequences.

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Domain
bioinformatics
Issue type
Feature
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Estimated time
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