Re: [AMBER] Determining rings in a molecule

From: Bill Ross <ross.cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 12:57:59 -0800

> I want to know that is there a way to find out how
> many rings are there in any given molecule (that is coordinates are
> given). To determine which atoms belong to which ring and whether that
> ring is planar or not?

I don't know of any ring-detection abilities in Amber. The topology
file gives the bonds, so you could maybe adapt some graph-theoretic
code to pick out the topological rings, then look at the crds and
analyze planarity. It would be a significant coding effort.

Bill

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