Software for superposition of similar molecules/domains

[Boris Steipe]

In article <Pine.SGI.3.90.950112225826.13608D-100000 at cb-sgi.massey.ac.nz>,
R.Faber at massey.ac.nz (Rick Faber) wrote:

> Anyone know of a 'automated' way of doing superpositions of different 
> molecules other than using O?  I'd just like to save a little of the
> drugery of figuring which C-alphas should correspond to which in 
> several different domains/molecules.  Someone must have written code to 
> do this somewhere.....  Any hints would be appreciated.
> 
> cheers,
> Rick
> 
> R.Faber at massey.ac.NZ

You might want to check the article "Classification of Protein folds"
C. Orengo, Curr. Opinion Struct. Biol., 4:429-440 which discusses several
algorithms suitable for this task.

Greetings
-- 
Boris <steipe at lmb.uni-muenchen.de>