[gmx-users] Re: A problem with do_dssp command

[Justin Lemkul]

On 5/8/13 5:33 PM, zugunder wrote:
> Thank you Justin, but I am afraid I do not understand what you mean.
>
> I am using gromacs 4.5.7 and there are no traces of -var option in its
> manual (actually, for 4.5.6); moreover, if I try to specify -ver in the
> command I get an error on an invalid command line argument. So I suppose,
> 4.5 can't do that.
>
> How do I know which version of dssp is compatible with do-dssp from gromacs
> 4.5.7? Should I look for dssp 1.x versions or any of pre-2.0.4 dssp would
> work too?
>

Perhaps that option was only implemented in the 4.6 series; I thought it was 
backported to the 4.5 branch.  For 4.5, you need a 1.x version of DSSP.  The 2.x 
series is incompatible.  Version 4.6.1 of Gromacs allows you to use either.

-Justin

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