[gmx-users] DSSP

[Justin Lemkul]

On 5/25/17 12:08 PM, Mariusz Wierzbowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to analyze secondary structure elements for my protein. I want to
> do it with do_dssp command in gromacs. I am using gromacs on a plgrid platform.
> The problem is that an error occurs:
>
> Fatal error: DSSP executable (/opt/dssp/bin/dssp) does not exist (use setenv DSSP).
>
> On other forums I have read about setting the environment with setenv or export
> DSSP
> but I think that these solutions are for programs on local system.
>

do_dssp is just a wrapper that calls the dssp program.  do_dssp always needs to 
know where the dssp binary is and it does that by assuming it is in 
/usr/local/bin/dssp unless you specify otherwise with an environment variable. 
That's true no matter what kind of computer you're running on.

-Justin

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