mleFit

mleFit

Fit structures and determine unstructured regions using the maximum likelihood methodology of

D.L. Theobald and D.S. Wuttke, "THESEUS: Maximum likelihood superpositioning and analysis of macromolecular structures," Bioinformatics 22, 2171-2172 (2006).

Usage: mleFit [options] <structures to fit>

where the structures to fit is a space-separated list of pdb filenames, or the name of a MODEL-separated PDB file.

Options are zero or more of:

-selection <atom selection> - which atoms to use in the fit
                              [default value: name CA]
-mSelect                    - specify method of regularizing the inverse of
                              the covariance matrix. By default, a
                              perturbative approach is used (a small
                              value is added to the diagonal). If this
                              option is specified, use diagonal
                              elements as ``eigenvalues,'' and follow the
                              scheme of Theoboald and Wuttke.
-verbose                    - cause intermediate values of log likelihood
                              and RMSD to be printed.
-pVariance                  - print a text file (named Variance.txt) with
                              the variances of all the selected atoms.
-pRTMatrix                  - print a text file (named RotTrans_Mat.txt)
                              with the rotation and tranlation matrix for
                              each structure.
-rmsdThreshold <value>      - specify the RMSD value for determining whether
                              an atom is in an ordered region [default: 1.000000
                              angstrom]
-writeStructs               - the PDB files of the fitted structures are
                              written to the current working directory
                              with '.mleFit' appended to the
                              filename. In addition, another PDB file is
                              written with the mean coordinates along with
                              the variance of each atom in the B-factor
                              column with the file name: MLE-Average.pdb.

 Maximum Likelihood RMSD    = Sqrt(k/Tr(C^{-1}))
                      where,
                          k = number of selected atoms
                          C = the covariance matrix

 Ensemble RMSD              = Sqrt(\Sum_{i,j}(delta_{i,j}^2)*1/(3Na*Ns))

 Average RMSD               = (1/Ns)*\Sum_{i}*
                                      (Sqrt(\Sum_{j}(delta_{i,j}^2))*1/(Na))
             where,
                delta_{i,j} = |q_{i,j}-qavg_{j}| ,q_{i,j} is the jth atom
                              in ith structure and qavg_{j} is the jth
                              atom of the mean structure.
                Ns          = Number of structures
                Na          = Number of selected atoms

Additional common options