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2.4 KiB
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58 lines
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STRIDE was initially developed for UNIX and thoroughly tested on 3000 PDB files and many
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different computers. For Macintosh I compiled STRIDE using the commercially available Metrowerks C
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compiler. Two versions of the executable were prepared stored in BinHex format: mac68K.hqx for older
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Macs and powmac.hqx for PowerMacintosh.
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NOTE ABOUT INTERFACE: STRIDE uses unix-style command line interface. Since Mac has no command
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line, I had to use the SIOUX console IO library and modify main() (file stride.c) by adding
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just two lines in the very beginning:
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#include "stride.h"
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#include <console.h> /* First modification */
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main()....
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..............
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argc = ccommand(&argv); /* Second modification */
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Note that these two lines are commented out in the source code, so if you want to recompile
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the program, you will have to uncomment them.
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Now if you click on the appropriate executable, a simple window pops up where you can type
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all command line parameters exactly as under UNIX, for example:
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1acp.brk -h -f1acp.str (see documentation).
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After you press RETURN, the computer will freeze for 1 to 20 minutes, dependent on the PDB
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structure size, and then come back to life again. The PowerMac version is 10-20 times faster
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on a PowerMac than mac68K.bin.
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If you need a fancier, more Macintosh-like interface, you are more than welcome to develop
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it. I am perfectly willing to cooperate, so please do not hesitate to contact me.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: I am not a Mac expert and this is the first time I used a Mac for anything
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other than typing text. I have no idea about Mac's architecture. For example, the current
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settings of minimal and typical memory required for the program and stack size were made
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essentially randomly. You might want to change these settings using the appropriate Mac
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utilities. Any feedback is welcome. Also, since I do not know how to run command scripts
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on Mac (is it possible?), the only way for me to test the program was to type command line
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parameters for every PDB file. I did it for about 100 randomly selected PDB structures and
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the results were correct. Still this is only a limited test...
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Dmitrij Frishman
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory
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Meyerhofstr. 1, 69012 Heidelberg, Germany
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tel. +49 -6221 - 387231
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fax. +49 -6221 - 387517
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frishman@embl-heidelberg.de
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