From: LW (wli148_at_aucklanduni.ac.nz)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2013 - 02:22:48 CDT

Dear John,
Thank you for your help. Many thanks also go to VMD builders.
Cheers.
Levi

2013/4/18 John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>

>
> Hi,
> Take a look at this wikipedia page for an intro:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabsch_algorithm
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 03:54:18PM +1200, LW wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > While I was aligning structures with VMD and reading the page below,
> the
> > efficient algorithm for computing the transformation_matrix
> interested me
> > a lot. Can someone give me some details on how it works?
> >
> >
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node200.html#ug:scripts:rmsd
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Best regards.
> >
> > LW
>
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