Hi Cedric,

I suggest to create an alignment object, then you see which atoms got paired.

http://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Align#Alignment_Objects

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
  Thomas

On 20 Oct 2014, at 11:44, Cedric <patrick.coss...@inbox.com> wrote:

> Hi Thomas, 
> 
> Thank you, I tried that and it is now 1.9A, still seems high when the overall 
> RMSD is 0.38 !
> 
> But, that is definitely something I will keep in mind in the future when 
> calculating the RMSD.
> 
> Cedric 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: thomas.hol...@schrodinger.com
>> Sent: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:38:41 -0400
>> To: patrick.coss...@inbox.com
>> Subject: Re: [PyMOL] RMSD
>> 
>> Hi Cedric,
>> 
>> you probably include random waters with "name o". Try adding "... and
>> polymer" to your selection string.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>>  Thomas
>> 
>> On 20 Oct 2014, at 11:16, Cedric <patrick.coss...@inbox.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I was comparing two very similar structures and I got the following
>>> results:
>>> 
>>> align pdb1, pdb2, cycles=0
>>> 
>>> 0.38
>>> 
>>> align pdb1, pdb2 and name ca, cycles=0
>>> 0.05
>>> 
>>> align pdb1, pdb2 and name ca+cb+c+n, cycles=0
>>> 0.07
>>> 
>>> 
>>> align pdb1, pdb2 and name ca+cb+c+n+o, cycles=0
>>> 9.8
>>> 
>>> I wonder why the addition of the O atom increases the RMSD so much esp
>>> when all atom RMSD is only 0.38A.
>>> 
>>> Thank you

-- 
Thomas Holder
PyMOL Developer
Schrödinger, Inc.


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