[gmx-users] [OT] Generate random coil protein conformations?

[ms]

On 05/12/10 00:26, Mark Abraham wrote:
>> Sorry for the offtopic but my google-fu is apparently abandoning me. I am looking for a fast way to generate random coil protein configurations to use as startpoints for several simulations I'd like to do.
>>
>> All I managed to find is:
>> - FOLDTRAJ which seems unavailable and discontinued
>> - the server at unfolded.uchicago.edu, which actual working part ( http://z-appserver.cti.depaul.edu/~unfolded/start.html ) seems unavailable as well.
>>
>> Anyone has working suggestions for that? I am quite sure there must be such a package, yet I can't find it... dumb me probably.
>>
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> I dunno if it will help, but Googling with "self-avoiding Gaussian walk" might help - since that's what a random coil is.

Thanks, nice tip -even if I doubt that a real RC is truly Gaussian in 
angle distribution, it is good enough for what I want to do -I can 
script Pymol about that.

m.

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