SWISS-MODEL - Downloading homology models

This notebook gives a tutorial of the SWISSMODEL object, which is a simple class to parse and download models from the SWISS-MODEL homology model repository.

**Input:** Path to SWISS-MODEL metadata directory, UniProt accession(s)

**Output:** Downloaded SWISS-MODEL models

Instructions

Download the metadata for your organism of interest at SWISS-MODEL from here: https://swissmodel.expasy.org/repository, under the column "Download Metadata (Models and structures)"
Extract that directory, which will then create a SWISS-MODEL_Repository folder)
Create a new SWISSMODEL object, pointing it to that folder
Download models for a specified UniProt accession



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from ssbio.databases.swissmodel import SWISSMODEL



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my_swissmodels = SWISSMODEL('/tmp/SWISS-MODEL_Repository/')



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# This gives you a list of all UniProt accession numbers with at least one model
my_swissmodels.uniprots_modeled[:10]



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# This gives you a list of all models available for a UniProt entry
my_swissmodels.get_models(uniprot_acc='Q9I1D5')



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# This downloads all models available for a UniProt entry
my_swissmodels.download_models(uniprot_acc='Q9I1D5', outdir='/tmp/', force_rerun=False)