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PICKFRAME

It is often the case that one wishes a particular protein structure to be the `parent' of the superimposition, i.e. the structure that is un-transformed. Accordingly, the program PICKFRAME allows one to select a particular reference frame for a particular domain identifier. Given a transformation file and an identifier, the program will set the selected identifier's transformation to the unit matrix and zero vector, and transform the other structures accordingly. This is useful if one wishes to combine different transformation files (i.e. if a multidomain protein has two domains, with each being similar to a separate domain).

The format is:

    pickframe -f <transformation file> -i <domain identifier>

The output will be to the standard output (i.e. one need just pipe the results into a file).

This program is very useful if one wishes to superimpose STAMP results for two different domains from the same protein. Since one can just make all transformations relative to the PDB file containing the two domains, and then combine the output into one transformation file.