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Unread 03-22-2004, 02:06 AM   #934
Groth
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The "STATUS 910 MISSING PREVIOUS OR ILLEGAL GENERATION" error is a bad one.

First, a little background. The idea behind DF is not only to try to calculate the correct shape of a protein, but to also see all the steps required to go from a straight chain of amino acids to a fully folded protein. The 'how' of the folding is as important as the final result.

For each of the 251 generations in a complete set, foldtrajlite uploads what the protein looked like at that step. If a step is missing or repeated, the set has little scientific value, so the servers check for that.

If it is a missing generation, there is nothing you can do. That set of 251 is worthless, and filelist.txt should be deleted (unless you have hundred of buffered generations). If it is a repeated gen, careful use of the -purgeuploadlist switch can help, but only if you've saved the directory and haven't tampered with it.

32 and 25 isn't a ton of files. Just delete filelist.txt and start folding again. Buffered gens can't be simply moved to another computer, they have to be a correct sequential set and have their matching filelist.txt. Filelist.txt has some tamper detection lines; don't even try editing it.

A new backend scheme is in the beta stage, it should largely eliminate the 910 errors.
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