Please note that the MSA file produced by colabfold (a3m file) can contain gaps in the query sequence. You have to remove them before using it in ESGEMME.
Please note that the MSA file produced by colabfold (a3m file) can contain gaps in the query sequence. You have to remove them before using it in ESGEMME. You can remove the gaps with pragrams that have a GUI, such as ugene (http://ugene.net/) or jalview (https://www.jalview.org/).
For testing purpose, you can find example input files for BLAT protein in data/ folder of this repository.