Runs, Clones, Gens

[iceman1992]

Sorry for the late reply, I was away for a few days
Is the "snapshot" a hypothetical one or does FAHclient really take snapshots?
Sadly, I don't understand half the things you said bruce
But at least I got the other half

[bruce]

No problem. If something I say needs more explanation I'll do my best to explain it in more detail or maybe just in a different way.

I'm using the word "snapshot" in a generic sense. Checkpoint is probably a more accurate word.

The fundamental concept is that you need to record all the information about the current state of the protein. That's a list of numbers. They have to describe the exact condition of everything that's happening so that if you need to interrupt the folding process and later to restart the process at the exact point you previously stopped it so you can continue processing as if it had never been interrupted.

If you turn that list of numbers into a series of graphic images and run them as a video, you'll see a movie of the folding process, so in that sense, a checkpoint is similar to a real snapshot but it actually contains more information.

For more discussion on checkpoints, go here: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=21674