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README does not mention that rsync is needed for DB download
Currently the section about downloading the genetic databases does not tell you, you need rsync installed to download them. It only mentions aria2c:
https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphafold/blob/f251de6613cb478207c732bf9627b1e853c99c2f/README.md?plain=1#L62-L82
But the download_pdb_mmcif.sh script does need rsync.
As far as I can see, rsync is the only other dependency needed apart from aria2. But not mentioning it in this section or checking it at the very beginning of the download_all_data.sh script an be quite annoying when you set up the download over night and it crashes at this step with ~180GB still to download.
When I find time today, I can also submit a PR, as this are only very small changes.