Hi Nat, DSSP recently went open source with a very liberal license. So you can consider using the real DSSP now. This may also be the moment to integrate DSSP in CCP4.
Cheers, Robbie Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Nat Echols Sent: 2013-01-28 17:32 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] off topic: DSSP On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Antony Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > If you don't mind using the ksDSSP implementation, it is already installed > with the phenix suite if you have it. Correct, but although the method is supposed to be the same, the output is not, and there are bugs in how it presents helix annotations. So I'm not sure it's a reliable substitute for the original DSSP - we use it in Phenix to calculate secondary structure restraints, with some extra filtering to catch the buggy annotations. (Unfortunately it was the only open-source program I could find for this purpose.) -Nat
