Dear Anna,
the implementation of the secstruct command follows the algorithm proposed by
Kabsch & Sander in Biopolymers 1983, 22, 2577-2637.
Best regards
Holger
Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2007 19:35 schrieb Anna Díaz Cirac:
> Dear Amber users,
>
> how does secstruct command works? I mean... what are the dihedral angles
> that the program use to decide the % of parallel sheet, antiparallel sheet
> .... because i have represented all dihedral values of a 100ns simulation
> in a Ramachandran plot, and using the angles taken from a book about
> peptides, I've calculated the % of the secondary structure and the results
> are not the same. I don't know if Ptraj use a wide range of values that I
> do.
>
> Another question is...I suppose that the calculation is made to result in
> 100%. If any residue doesn't come to 100%, it's because the program doesn't
> identify it as a structure, does it?
>
> Thanks and regards
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J.W. Goethe-Universitaet
Fachbereich Biowissenschaften
Institut fuer Zellbiologie und Neurowissenschaft
Max-von-Laue-Str. 9
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