Hi all,

I have a follow-up question here. I calculated the eigenvalues and the
eigenvectors and some of them have imaginary terms. The real terms of the
eigenvalues match a 2-fold rotation, but I am just wondering what the
imaginary terms represent. It's been quite a while since I studied linear
algebra.

Thank you so much,
Chen

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Philip Kiser <[email protected]> wrote:

> Cool. Glad to help.
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Chen Zhao <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Philip,
>>
>> Please forgive me! Yes it is eigenvectors that I am looking for. I was
>> deriving myself and came to the conclusion that R=A^(-1)R'A, but I just
>> forgot it is eigenvectors, and I forgot what the eigenvector is originally
>> for. Thank you so much!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Chen
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Philip Kiser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Chen,
>>>
>>> Wouldn't the fold of the NCS be clear from the PDB file? You could use
>>> superpose to superimpose one monomer onto the next member of the NCS group,
>>> and then take the rotation matrix output from that program to calculate the
>>> eigenvectors for the transformation. The NCS axis is parallel to one of
>>> those eigenvectors.
>>>
>>> Philip
>>>
>>> Philip
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Chen Zhao <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a software that can print out the position and the fold of a
>>>> NCS rotational axis from a PDB file? (just something like molrep
>>>> self-rotation on a reflection file) I cannot use molrep because the RMSD
>>>> between the two copies are too high, and I just want to cut a certain
>>>> region for calculation. I don't know whether calculated Fc from the
>>>> truncated PDB works in molrep self-RF, but I am thinking whether there is a
>>>> more straightforward way.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Chen
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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