Hello,

What version od OB are you using? I would recommend checking latest master
branch on github. Actually it has confab bundled, which was suggested by
Pascal, while confab on itself also uses ancient version (2.3.1 as I
remember correctly).

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Pozdrawiam,  |  Best regards,
Maciek Wójcikowski
mac...@wojcikowski.pl

2015-05-29 10:02 GMT+02:00 Pascal Muller <pascal.jm.mul...@gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
>
>
>> According to "obabel -L conformer" there is an option that will carry out
>> an exhaustive systematic search for the lowest energy conformer. When I
>> execute "obabel --conformer --systematic", my output structure is identical
>> to the input structure. For example:
>>
>> $ obabel in.xyz -O out.xyz  --conformer --systematic
>> 1 molecule converted
>>
>> $ diff in.xyz out.xyz
>> 2c2
>> <
>> ---
>> > in.xyz
>>
>> Am I executing the program incorrectly?
>>
>>
> --systematic doesn't output conformers for me too.
> But e.g. --nconf 20 --writeconformers, instead of --systematic, does
> output 20 conformers (starting from a 3D sdf).
> obabel in.sdf -Oout.sdf --conformer --nconf 20 --writeconformers
>
>
> Did you try confab?
>
> http://open-babel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/3DStructureGen/multipleconformers.html
>
> http://forums.openbabel.org/Confab-algorithm-for-openbabel-conformer-search-td4658039.html
>
> Regards,
> Pascal
>
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