On Friday, 13 January 2012, Appu kumar wrote:
> Dear ccp4 users,
> Would you please guide me how to calculate
> the RMSD of side chains alone without considering C-alpha backbone.
> Is/are there any program/programs availble which do this job. I want
> to know the RMSD of side chains for protein comparison.
What is the question that you are trying to answer?
If you are going to disregard the mainchain position, then
I would guess that you'd be better off comparing rotamer
classes than comparing coordinates.
Ethan
>
> Thank you in advance.
> Appu
>
