To run a tool in Studio, you open a project's campaign, launch the tool as a window from the bottom toolbar, and fill in its form. The job runs in the background, and the same window shows the result when it finishes. This page runs ESMFold once, from start to finish.

You need a project that has at least one campaign. You create both in Files; see Campaigns.

Open the campaign in Studio

In Files, open your project, select a campaign, and choose Open Studio. A dialog warns that Studio is experimental. Choose Continue to Studio.

The project loads with the left sidebar, the canvas, the bottom toolbar and the right sidebar. The overview describes each region.

Open a tool window

In the bottom toolbar, open the Model menu. Tools are grouped by category. Choose Structure & Folding → ESMFold Structure Prediction. A tool window opens on the canvas.

You can also launch a tool from the right sidebar. On the Pipeline tab, the Next Step card names the first unchecked step of the drug-development checklist, and its Start button opens that step's tool.

The Model menu lists every catalogued tool, but only tools with a Studio form open a window. Clicking any other tool does nothing.

Fill in the form and run

Paste a protein sequence, adjust the parameters you care about, and submit. The job runs on the platform's compute backend. You can keep working, or close the tab, while it runs.

Follow the job

The job appears under active jobs at the top of the right sidebar's Pipeline tab. That list shows up to three running or queued jobs. To see all of the project's jobs, open the Jobs & Discovery menu in the bottom toolbar and choose Jobs Dashboard. The dashboard is covered in Job management.

Read the result

When the job finishes, the tool window shows the result. You can also reach it from the Jobs Dashboard. Open the job row's actions menu and choose View Details. A Job Details window opens, and its Results & Files tab lists the output files for download.

A successful ESMFold job ticks Structure Predicted on the checklist automatically.

What Studio saves

Studio saves the project automatically. It writes these to the project:

the open windows and their positions
whether each sidebar is open
tool form data
the checklist

Reopening the project restores them. Save Project in the File menu does nothing, because there is no manual save.

Not available yet

These controls are on screen, but in the current build they do nothing:

File → Save Project, Save Project As… and Import Project from Export
Quick Actions → Create Workflow (beta), and the named example workflows listed under it
The PDF Report export profile. The server answers that PDF export is not implemented.
The left sidebar's Data Sources buttons. Use the bottom toolbar's Data Sources menu instead
The right sidebar's Files tab. Browse files at /data instead
Run Workflow on a template in the right sidebar's Workflows tab, and Run in the Visual Workflow Builder

The Create Workflow, Parameter Sweep and Smart Suggestions entries marked Soon are disabled.

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