[Biojava-l] Constructing Backbone of Protein

[Andreas Prlic]

Hi Armita,

> I need to write a program that can construct  the backbone of the  
> protein  from  its sequence and the relevant phi and psi angles.  I  
> want to know if there is a class or method that can help me to  
> calculate the coordinates form phi and psi angles!

Where do you get the phi and psi angles from? sounds a bit like a  
protein structure prediction problem, which Biojava can not do. If  
you have a structure and you want to get the phi and psi angles, you  
can have a look at the example in the docu: http://www.biojava.org/ 
docs/api16/org/biojava/bio/structure/Structure.html

There are also some tools for calculations on atoms and amino acids  
available from:
http://www.biojava.org/docs/api16/org/biojava/bio/structure/Calc.html

Cheers,
Andreas


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