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Encountering Rate Limit Despite MSA Server Not Being Used

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Description

Expected Behavior

I expect structures to be predicted without a rate limit.

Current Behavior

I have provided .a3m files already with the expectation I can avoid connecting to the server and getting a rate limit.
This seems to work fine for the first 25 sequences and then I am provided a rate limit again of ~ 90 seconds between structures.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

colabfold_batch --num-recycle 0 --num-models 1 fasta_file.fasta output_dir_with_a3m_files

ColabFold Output (for bugs)

2025-01-13 14:33:42,599 Sleeping for 8s. Reason: RATELIMIT... etc.

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Research direction

Start by running the reported colabfold_batch command with the supplied .a3m files and trace why it still reaches the rate-limit path after the first 25 sequences. Done means locally supplied alignments no longer trigger the reported ~90-second delay, with the behavior verified for this reproduction.

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Assessment

Domain
bioinformatics, cli
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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