Dear Jean-Paul,

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:18 PM, JP <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have the indices for four atoms: how do I calculate the torsion angle
> using rdkit ?
>
> I can see that the method I want is
> here: http://www.rdkit.org/C++_Docs/TorsionAngle_8h.html
> But is this method on the Python interface?
>
> I would have imagined this method to exist in the python Geom package...

It's an oversight really. The only code in the RDKit for calculating
torsions is the piece you discovered in the force field
implementation.

> If it is not available, it is not a big deal as the calculation is
> straightforward.  But if it is really missing in the python interface, it
> just looks like a waste to have the method there and not be able to use it.

There's no real argument against adding this to the Geom interface
that I can come up with at the moment. I'll take a look at adding it
for the next release.

-greg

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