Hi all,

Is anyone interested in writing a DSSR plugin for PyMOL? DSSR is an integrated 
software tool for Dissecting the Spatial Structure of RNA 
(http://x3dna.bio.columbia.edu/docs/dssr-manual.pdf). Among other things, DSSR 
defines the secondary structure of RNA from 3D atomic coordinates in a way 
similar to DSSP does for proteins. Most of its output could be translated 1:1 
into PyMOL selections, making it available for coloring and other selection 
based features. A PyMOL plugin could act as a wrapper which runs DSSR for an 
object or atom selection. Xiang-Jun Lu, the author of DSSR, is also working on 
base pair visualization (see 
http://x3dna.org/articles/seeing-is-understanding-as-well-as-believing), 
similar to (but more advanced) what's already available from 3DNA 
(http://pymolwiki.org/index.php/3DNA).

Xiang-Jun would be happy to collaborate with someone who has experience with 
Python and the PyMOL API for writing an extension or plugin. Please contact me 
if this sounds appealing to you.

Get DSSR from http://x3dna.org/
See it hooked up with JSmol: http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/jsmol/dssr.htm

Cheers,
  Thomas

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Thomas Holder
PyMOL Principal Developer
Schrödinger, Inc.
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