> 1. is it possible to generate the full set of rotamers ( any specified 
> amount) rather then one with the lowest energy? If ansew to my question is 
> yes, then HOW???? Can I ask f.e about structures of top 100? 

> 2. by default. this program calculates # of rotatable bonds and # of 
> rotamers. Do you know how to save that information in file??? I have 5000 
> molecules, and before starting actual generation of rotamers( and selection 
> of the one with the lowest energy) i need to know how many i want the program 
> to generate. It would be useful to know to use with obconformer. 

For #1, I'd suggest a different program. You can get these through the babel 
interface:
> Typical usage: obabel infile.xxx -O outfile.yy --conformer --nconf
>  options:             description
>  --log            output a log of the energies (default = no log)
>  --nconf #        number of conformers to generate
>  forcefield based methods for finding stable conformers:
>  --systematic     systematically generate all conformers
>  --random         randomly generate conformers
>  --weighted       weighted rotor search for lowest energy conformer
>  --ff #           select a forcefield (default = MMFF94)
>  genetic algorithm based methods (default):
>  --children #     number of children to generate for each parent (default = 5)
>  --mutability #   mutation frequency (default = 5)
>  --converge #     number of identical generations before convergence is 
> reached
>  --score #        scoring function [rmsd|energy] (default = rmsd)

So you might want something like:

# use the genetic algorithm method
obabel infile.sdf -O outfile.sdf --conformer --nconf 100 --score energy
# or use the mmff94 with weighted searching
obabel infile.sdf -O outfile.sdf --conformer --nconf 100 --weighted

For #2, you'll want to save the output to a file. On Linux or Mac, you can do 
something like this:

obconformer file.sdf 2>>log.txt

Then log.txt will have the information you request. (You can read more about 
shell scripting to automate this further.)

Hope that helps,
-Geoff
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