Modern OpenFold conda environments with pixi

Pixi is a modern tool that allows for much faster environment building over conda, Pixes also comes with .lock environment files out of the box.

Key terms when working with pixi

• an “environment”, it’s a group of “features”, an example environment is openfold3-cuda13-pypi

• a “feature” is a group of packages/dependencies (either from conda or pypi)

• each environment is then composed from one or more features

Here is an overview diagram showing the various environments and features currently available.