Dear all,

Thanks a lot for your input. Later I found a R package called bio3d that is
very suitable for my purpose.

Best,
Chen

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Steven Chou <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Chen,
> I used SUPPOSE previously. It worked very well. The compositions of  the
> structures have to be the same!  It works on Linux.
> http://structbio.vanderbilt.edu/~jsmith/suppose/
>
> If the compositions of your structures are different, you may first load
> them to PyMOL, then align them use its commandline.
>
> http://pldserver1.biochem.queensu.ca/~rlc/work/teaching/BCHM823/pymol/alignment/
>
> If the compositions/sequences of your structures are very very different,
> but their overall structure are similar, you can do the alignment using a
> PyMOL plugin called 'cealign'. It works on both Mac and Linux.
> http://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Cealign
>
>
> Here is my note on how to run SUPPOSE.
> #### remove the outputs from the previous runs
> rm -rf *.rot.pdb  mean.pdb  all.pdb
>
> # if the input file names are XXX.pdb, those of the output files are
> XXX.rot.pdb and a mean.pdb
>
>
> #### fit the structrue models based on the CA atoms, and then calculate
> the RMSD of the backbone atoms
> suppose -mat -rot -mean -fit ":11-52,85-97:CA" -calc ":11-52,85-97:C,CA,N"
> restrt_*.pdb
> # 0.639
>
> #### fit the structrue models based on the CA atoms, and then calculte the
> RMSD of the heavy atoms
> suppose -mat -rot -mean -fit ":11-52,85-97:CA" -calc
> ":11-52,85-97:C*,N*,O*,S*" restrt_*.pdb
> # 1.23
>
> # Do not visulize the rotated pdb files with molmol at this step, because
> molmol will shift the individual files.
> # That is, the output files have already been perfectly supperimposed,
> # but molmol gives an illusion that they  have not been rotated correctly.
>
> #### join the pdb with the AWK script
> ./joinpdb -o all.pdb  *.rot.pdb
> # input files: *.rot.pdb
> # output file: all.pdb
>
> #### display the rotated pdb with molmol now.
> molmol all.pdb
> # molmol can only display the combined pdb (i.e., 20 models in one file)
> correctly!!!
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Steven
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Chen Zhao <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am just wondering whether there is a simple command line tool for RMSD
>> calculation between two aligned structures? I just cannot find a good
>> answer online, and ccp4bb can always impress me.
>>
>> Thank you so much in advance,
>> Chen
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Steven Chou
>
>
>

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