Hi JD, You should use DetectClash.detectClash(). The only mandatory argument is a list of atoms. So if your selection was in a variable named 's', you might call the function like so: from DetectClash import detectClash clashes = detectClash(s.atoms()) The return value is a dictionary. The keys of the dictionary are atoms that have clashes. The values are dictionaries. These dictionaries have keys which are the atoms that clash with the original key atom. The values are the amount of the clash. So to get the number of clashes, you would use something like this: sum = 0 for clashDict in clashes.values(): sum += len(clashDict) numClashes = sum / 2 Now, there are a lot of optional keyword arguments to the detectClash() function. They are pretty well documented in the doc string of the function. So you should look through the doc string and post any questions that you might still have... --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu On Oct 28, 2008, at 7:15 AM, Jean Didier Pie Marechal wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am writing a script for which I need the number of clashes for a given selection for continuing.
My first thought was to simply run in my script: runCommand("findclash selection ignoreIntraRes false") after having selected the region I was interested in. However, I realize that I come to the recurrent problem: having the information I am interested in printed in the reply log. I don't know how to have the info passed into an array or any kind of variable in the python environment. Could you tell me how to do so please?
On the other side, I would be pleased if you could tell me what is the correct arguments I have to pass and syntax I have to use for the functions detectClash and/or cmdDetectClash (which I guess is the basis of the same findclash).
All the best, JD
Dr. Jean-Didier Maréchal Lecturer Computational Bioorganic and Bioionorganic Chemistry @ Transmet Unitat de Química Física Departament de Química Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Edifici C.n. 08193 Cerdanyola (Barcelona) Tel: +34.935814936 e-mail: JeanDidier.Marechal@uab.es
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