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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2012 - 11:13:32 CDT

I have updated the README file in vmd/lib/stride/README to point to the
new link that Ajasja mentioned, as well as the URL on our site and at EBI.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 08:39:29AM +0100, Ajasja Ljubeti?? wrote:
> I think this is the up to date link
> http://webclu.bio.wzw.tum.de/stride/
> Best regards,
> Ajasja
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:57, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk_at_mit.edu> wrote:
>
> % STRIDE is used by VMD to compute the secondary structure given the
> % protein 3D coordinates. The appropriate STRIDE binary is included in
> % the VMD binary distribution. To compile it yourself, see
> % http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/stride/stride_info.html for information
> % on how to get the source and see ./lib/stride for information on how
> % to use it with VMD. This code should be modified in two ways:
>
> It seems that that quoted URL no longer points to anything useful,
> instead yielding a "page not found" landing site.
> If memory serves me correctly, I can find
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/extsrcs/Stride_src.tar.Z and
> ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/unix/stride/src/stride.tar.gz , but
> embl-heidelberg.de seems to no longer host anything STRIDE-related.
>
> I've been using the tarball hosted on ks.uiuc.edu (and I guess I assume
> everybody else is, too?), but it's probably worth updating the README to
> point somewhere useful.
>
> -Ben Kaduk 

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