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Overview
This section describes the pdb2towhee utility program. This program is designed to translate the standard pdb files into appropriate Towhee files
for starting a simulation. In all cases it will output a towhee_coords file full of the system coordinates. In certain cases it will
output a towhee_altinp file with partial information required to set up a polypeptide molecule template.
Compiling
pdb2towhee is compiled using the Utility Makefile.
cd /towheebase/Utilsmake pdb2towhee
This creates the pdb2towhee executable that is run from the command line.
Features
When you run this program from the command line it asks a number of questions about the file that you wish to translate. Those questions
and a discussion of the available options are listed here.
- Please enter the type of input file (integer)
- 1 - protein pdb file
This requires the input pdb file to be in the standard format,
to have had all of the header information removed (the first line should be the first ATOM line), and to contain a polypeptide that you wish to
input into Towhee using the polypeptide builder. This option will output a towhee_coords file with the system coordinates and a
towhee_altinp file with the listing of amino acids in the Towhee code. You will need to sort through the towhee_altinp
afterwards to sort out the protonation states of histadine, and to assign any bonding partners for disulfide bridges.
- 2 - generic pdb file
This requires the input pdb file to be in the standard format,
and to have had all of the header information removed (the first line should be the first ATOM line). This option will output a
towhee_coords file with the system coordinates.
- 3 - generic Charmm output file
This requires the input pdb file to be in the Charmm format and to have had all of the header information removed (the first line should be the
that contains coordinates). This option will output a towhee_coords file with the system coordinates.
- 4 - Charmm output file (DNA)
This requires the input pdb file to be in the Charmm format, to be a DNA strand, and to have had all of the header information removed
(the first line should be the that contains coordinates. This option will output a towhee_coords file with the system coordinates and a
towhee_altinp file with the listing of DNA bases in the Towhee code.
- 5 - Charmm output file (RNA)
This requires the input pdb file to be in the Charmm format, to be a RNA strand, and to have had all of the header information removed
(the first line should be the that contains coordinates. This option outputs a towhee_coords file with the system coordinates and a
towhee_altinp file with the listing of RNA bases in the Towhee code.
- Please enter the pdb file name (character string)
The name of the file that you wish to translate.
- Please enter the number of atoms (integer)
The number of atoms that you wish to translate from the old file into the Towhee files.
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