There is currently an effort to update and modernize the membrane related code in Rosetta, which would include the run_lips script, so updating is something that’s on the list of things to do, although we don’t have it completed currently.
Here’s a quick outline of the changes which would need to be made:
The key line of code in run_lips.pl with respect to blast is line 80, which basically invokes the command
$PSIBLAST -i $seq -d $DB -j 2 -h 0.001 -b5000 -v5000 -o $blastout
To use the more recent version, it looks like that needs to be changed to
$PSIBLAST -query $seq -db $DB -num_iterations 2 -evalue 0.001 -num_alignments 5000 -num_descriptions 5000 -o $blastout
The output format is also almost-but-not-quite the same, so the alignblast.pl script needs to be changed. I’ve attached a patch file which shows the necessary changes. (This can be quickly applied with “patch alignblast.pl < alignblast.patch_.txt" - I'd recommend making a backup copy of the old version before you do.)
Note that I haven’t benchmarked these changes – There may be some additional setting/parameter changes you would need to make in order to get equivalent performance from the lips predictions for the psiblast versus blastpgp. Caveat experimentor.
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