gjb at bioch.ox.ac.uk (Geoff Barton) writes:
>You need DSSP from Chris Sander at EMBL. I think the program is available
>on the EMBL file server.
>See the paper: Kabsch and Sander (1983) Biopolymers, 22, 2577-2637
DSSP will nominally provide the desired output, but its assignments of
secondary structure frequently disagree with those of those who solved
the structure. There are many reasons for this (many of them not
DSSP's fault), but mainly it appears to be a consequence of DSSPs
simple algorithm for determining secondary structure.
Therefore, it may also be worth looking at VADAR, which performs the
same task using somewhat more sophisticated criteria. The program was
developed by David Wishart at U Alberta.
The program can be found at canopus.biochem.ualberta.ca as
pub/VadarAug93.tar.Z
Steven
P.S. DSSP may be found on ftp.embl-heidelberg.de in the directory
pub/databases/protein_extras/dssp. Source code is available by
signing the license agreement; executables are found in that directory.
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