colabfold_local mode does not work offline

[JoseEspinosa]

Description of the bug

colabfold_local should work offline as the msa is build by the MMSEQS_COLABFOLDSEARCH process and passed to the COLABFOLD_BATCH process downstream.

Here is the log:

2024-10-26 08:39:59,320 Error: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.colabfold.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /
ticket/msa (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x14a4dccf8280>: Failed to estab
lish a new connection: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable'))
2024-10-26 08:40:04,331 Error while fetching result from MSA server. Retrying... (1/5)
2024-10-26 08:40:04,332 Error: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.colabfold.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /
ticket/msa (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x14a4dccf8580>: Failed to estab
lish a new connection: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable'))
2024-10-26 08:40:09,341 Error while fetching result from MSA server. Retrying... (1/5)
2024-10-26 08:40:09,342 Error: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.colabfold.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /
ticket/msa (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x14a4dccf8e50>: Failed to estab
lish a new connection: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable'))
2024-10-26 08:40:14,351 Error while fetching result from MSA server. Retrying... (1/5)
2024-10-26 08:40:14,351 Error: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.colabfold.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /
ticket/msa (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x14a4dccf9900>: Failed to estab
lish a new connection: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable'))

[JoseEspinosa]

It is possible to run colabfold_mode offline by setting the --use_templates false parameter as this will turn off the --templates argument when running colabfold_batch as explained explained here.
Not using the templates should have little effect on the result however, it is also possible to create a list of PDB templates with colabfold_search offline see here. So maybe this is something that could be implemented in the future.