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Calculate the heavy-atom RMSD between two chemically identical structures

Synopsis

obrms[-fmxso] filename1 filename2

Description

Computes the heavy-atom RMSD of identical compound structures. Structures in multi-structure files are compared one-by-one unless -firstonly is passed, in which case only the first structure in the reference file is used.

Options

-f, --firstonly

use only the first structure in the reference file (otherwise the nth molecule in the reference file is compared to the nth molecule in the test file)

-m, --minimize

Compute the minimum RMSD achievable by applying a rigid-body transformation to the test molecule

-x, --cross

Compute all n^2 RMSDs between molecules of the reference file. Test file is ignored.

-s, --separate

Separate reference file into constituent molecules (disconnected fragments) and report best RMSD

-o, --out

Re-oriented test structure output (used with -m)

Examples

obrms ref.sdf test.sdf

Calculate the RMSD between ref.sdf and test.sdf. Both files should have the same number of molecules.

obrms -f ref.sdf test.sdf

Calculate the RMSD between the first molecule in ref.sdf and each molecule in test.sdf.

See Also

obfit(1).

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Authors

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October 10, 2019