mindist.pl Show Source
mindist.pl residue1 residue2 pdbFile

This script calculates the minimum distance of heavy atoms between a pair of residues in a protein structure. The residue numbers and the protein structure are expected as command line arguments. The distance in Angstrom is written to standard output.

mindist.pl 10 18 1vii.exp.pdb
calculates the minimum inter-residue distance for the given residue pair in the given structure
7.905990

        
GenUtil.pm  Molecule.pm
Michael Feig, Brooks group, TSRI