DSSP like program in FORTRAN?

[Mark Israel]

In article <Cvu2An.EzE at ucdavis.edu>, Hemant Varma <varma at okra.ece.ucdavis.edu> writes:

> I was wondering if anybody knows whether a program similar to DSSP 
> is available anywhere at any ftp site, but written in FORTRAN.

   DEFINE_STRUCTURE, by Richards, Kundrot, and Kahn, is in
FORTRAN.  Like DSSP, it's not public domain, but it's free if
you sign a licence.  Contact Art Perlo (perlo at csb.yale.edu) 
to get it.

> I want to write a program that is similar to DSSP but to try and 
> get the coordinates of the the Center of Mass of the side chain 
> atoms output along with the C-alphas.

   You might ask DSSP co-author Chris Sander (sander at embl-heidelberg.de) 
if he'd be willing to make this modification for you.  It sounds simple, 
and he's a helpful man.

misrael at csi.uottawa.ca			Mark Israel