Class StructurePairAligner


  • public class StructurePairAligner
    extends Object
    Perform a pairwise protein structure superimposition.

    The algorithm is a distance matrix based, rigid body protein structure superimposition. It is based on a variation of the PSC++ algorithm provided by Peter Lackner (Peter.Lackner@sbg.ac.at, personal communication) .

    Example

      public void run(){
    
                    // first load two example structures
                    InputStream inStream1 = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/files/5pti.pdb");
                    InputStream inStream2 = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/files/1tap.pdb");
    
                    Structure structure1 = null;
                    Structure structure2 = null;
    
                    PDBFileParser pdbpars = new PDBFileParser();
                    structure1 = pdbpars.parsePDBFile(inStream1) ;
                    structure2 = pdbpars.parsePDBFile(inStream2);
    
    
                    // calculate structure superimposition for two complete structures
                    StructurePairAligner aligner = new StructurePairAligner();
    
    
                            // align the full 2 structures with default parameters.
                            // see StructurePairAligner for more options and how to align
                            // any set of Atoms
                            aligner.align(structure1,structure2);
    
                            AlternativeAlignment[] aligs = aligner.getAlignments();
                            AlternativeAlignment a = aligs[0];
                            System.out.println(a);
    
                            //display the alignment in Jmol
    
                            // first get an artificial structure for the alignment
                            Structure artificial = a.getAlignedStructure(structure1, structure2);
    
    
                            // and then send it to Jmol (only will work if Jmol is in the Classpath)
    
                            BiojavaJmol jmol = new BiojavaJmol();
                            jmol.setTitle(artificial.getName());
                            jmol.setStructure(artificial);
    
                            // color the two structures
    
    
                            jmol.evalString("select *; backbone 0.4; wireframe off; spacefill off; " +
                                            "select not protein and not solvent; spacefill on;");
                            jmol.evalString("select *"+"/1 ; color red; model 1; ");
    
    
                            // now color the equivalent residues ...
    
                            String[] pdb1 = a.getPDBresnum1();
                            for (String res : pdb1 ){
                                    jmol.evalString("select " + res + "/1 ; backbone 0.6; color white;");
                            }
    
                            jmol.evalString("select *"+"/2; color blue; model 2;");
                            String[] pdb2 = a.getPDBresnum2();
                            for (String res :pdb2 ){
                                    jmol.evalString("select " + res + "/2 ; backbone 0.6; color yellow;");
                            }
    
    
                            // now show both models again.
                            jmol.evalString("model 0;");
    
            }
     
    Since:
    1.4
    Version:
    %I% %G%
    Author:
    Andreas Prlic, Peter Lackner