Miguel summarized the situation regarding automatic identification of
protein secondary structures and jmol and concluded by saying:
My current position is as follows:
Some else needs to lead the effort to get automatic identification of
protein secondary structures built into Jmol. I believe that this needs to
be someone who understands the problem and has implementation experience.
I will certainly support the effort in any way that I can, but I will not
lead the effort.
This is an eminently reasonable position. I think we should thank
Miguel for the time he spent trying to get the relevant people in the
protein structure community to co-operate. My personal opinion is
that his failure reflects very badly on that community, certain
sections of which have a history of selfishness in relation both to
structural data and computer algorithms.
This is most unfortunate for Jmol as automatic secondary structure
prediction is one of the key Rasmol features (according to one of my
colleagues) that Jmol lacks. Did anyone ever try to approach Roger
Sayle, who presumably wrote devised the algorithm that handles this
in Rasmol?
David
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