[ccp4bb] align DNA structures

2009-10-21 Thread Mike England
Hi all, I will highly appreciate your help regarding following: How to align two DNA structures in Pymol or Coot or any other softwares? ( I tried regular align in Pymol, but it doesn't work for DNA; it works great for protein structures.) Thanks a lot in advance ! Mike

Re: [ccp4bb] align DNA structures

2009-10-21 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Hi Mike, By 'align', if you mean superimposition, lsqman will do the job. Raji --- Raji Edayathumangalam Joint Research Fellow Brigham and Women's Hospital/ Harvard Medical School Brandeis University On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Mike England wrote: Hi all, I will highly

Re: [ccp4bb] align DNA structures

2009-10-21 Thread Ed Pozharski
Both pymol/align and coot/ssm (I presume) do the secondary structure alignment first followed by structural alignment. So it only works for proteins. In Pymol, there is fit command that instead matches atoms with the same names; and super which does sequence alignment first. You can try to play

Re: [ccp4bb] align DNA structures

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Brooks
Anna Pyle's group came out with a powerful idea- a simplified set of torsion angles for nucleic acids (NA). http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol31/issue16/images/small/gkg682f1.gif http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/31/16/4755 This is implemented in a Perl program, called