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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2013 - 01:22:21 CDT

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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