Re: [Open Babel] Converting Smiles to XYZ coordinates

2015-04-02 Thread David Hall
questions on this (like all questions) should go to mailing list; I have never looked at how gen3D is implemented or the minimizer that presumably is giving this error, so I am of no help. -David > On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:25 PM, Matthew Guberman wrote: > >Thanks David for your help. I, how

Re: [Open Babel] Converting Smiles to XYZ coordinates

2015-04-02 Thread David Hall
You didn’t tell open babel to generate coordinates. It appears to did tell it to add hydrogens Telling it to generate 3D coordinates: $ obabel -:'[S@]1(C)[Au][S@]([Au][S@](C)[Au][S@]([Au]1)C)C' -oxyz -h --gen3D 24 S -2.62740 -0.178950.14170 C -2.95652 -0.069

[Open Babel] Converting Smiles to XYZ coordinates

2015-04-02 Thread Matthew Guberman
Hello, I need to convert a SMILES string (below) to xyz coordinates. When I try to do this, the correct structure is shown in Firefox, but the list of coordinates (below) contains only zeros, and when I save the output as a PDB (so I can view it in Chimera), I only see a single Au atom. H