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gmx do_dssp [-f [<.xtc/.trr/...>]] [-s [<.tpr/.tpb/...>]] [-n [<.ndx>]]
[-ssdump [<.dat>]] [-map [<.map>]] [-o [<.xpm>]] [-sc [<.xvg>]]
[-a [<.xpm>]] [-ta [<.xvg>]] [-aa [<.xvg>]] [-nice ]
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setenv DSSP /opt/dssp/bin/dssp
Since version 2.0.0, dssp is invoked with a syntax that differs from earlier versions. If you have an older version of dssp, use the -ver option to direct do_dssp to use the older syntax. By default, do_dssp uses the syntax introduced with version 2.0.0. Even newer versions (which at the time of writing are not yet released) are assumed to have the same syntax as 2.0.0.
The structure assignment for each residue and time is written to an .xpm matrix file. This file can be visualized with for instance xv and can be converted to postscript with xpm2ps. Individual chains are separated by light grey lines in the .xpm and postscript files. The number of residues with each secondary structure type and the total secondary structure (-sss) count as a function of time are also written to file (-sc).
Solvent accessible surface (SAS) per residue can be calculated, both in absolute values (A^2) and in fractions of the maximal accessible surface of a residue. The maximal accessible surface is defined as the accessible surface of a residue in a chain of glycines. Note that the program [gmx-sas] can also compute SAS and that is more efficient.
Finally, this program can dump the secondary structure in a special file ssdump.dat for usage in the program gmx chi. Together these two programs can be used to analyze dihedral properties as a function of secondary structure type.