spyrmsd 0.4.0

Python RMSD tool with symmetry correction.

sPyRMSD

Python tool for symmetry-corrected RMSD calculations.

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If you find spyrmsd useful, please consider citing the following paper:

@article{spyrmsd2020,
  Author = {Meli, Rocco and Biggin, Philip C.},
  Journal = {Journal of Cheminformatics},
  Number = {1},
  Pages = {49},
  Title = {spyrmsd: symmetry-corrected RMSD calculations in Python},
  Volume = {12},
  Year = {2020}
}

Installation

spyrmsd is available on PyPI and conda-forge and can be easily installed from source. See Dependencies for a description of all the dependencies.

Note: spyrmsd will install NetworkX (multi-platform). You can install graph-tool on macOS and Linux for higher performance.

PyPI

pip install spyrmsd

conda

conda install spyrmsd -c conda-forge

GitHub

git clone https://github.com/RMeli/spyrmsd.git
cd spyrmsd
pip install .

Dependencies

spyrmsd can be used both as a module or as a standalone tool.

Module

The following packages are required to use spyrmsd as a module:

• graph-tool or NetworkX
• numpy
• scipy
• qcelemental

Note: spyrmsd uses graph-tool by default but will fall back to NetworkX if the former is not installed (e.g. on Windows). However, in order to support cross-platform installation NetworkX is installed by default.

Standalone Tool

Additionally, one of the following packages is required to use spyrmsd as a standalone tool:

• Open Babel
• RDKit

Note: RDKit is not available on PyPI (Why the RDKit isn't available on PyPi). See RDKit Installation for installation instructions.

Usage

Standalone

python -m spyrmsd.spyrmsd -h

usage: spyrmsd.py [-h] [-m] [-c] [--hydrogens] [-n] reference molecules [molecules ...]

Python RMSD tool.

positional arguments:
  reference       Reference file
  molecules       Input file(s)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help      show this help message and exit
  -m, --minimize  Minimize (fit)
  -c, --center    Center molecules at origin
  --hydrogens     Keep hydrogen atoms
  -n, --nosymm    No graph isomorphism

Module

from spyrmsd import rmsd

RMSD

The function rmsd.rmsd computes RMSD without symmetry correction. The atoms are expected to be in the same order for both molecules being compared (no atom matching is performed).

Symmetry-Corrected RMSD

The function rmsd.symmrmsd computes symmetry-corrected RMSD using molecular graph isomorphisms. Symmetry correction requires molecular adjacency matrices describing the connectivity but needs not the atoms to be in the same order.

Atom matching is performed according to the molecular graph. Therefore, this function should be used when atoms in the molecules being compared are not in the same order (even if there is not symmetry).

Development

To ensure code quality and consistency the following tools are used during development:

• black
• Flake 8 (CI)
• mypy (CI)

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2019-2020, Rocco Meli.

References

References are tracked with duecredit. Run the credits.sh script in order to print up-to-date references.

Acknowledgements

Project based on the Computational Molecular Science Python Cookiecutter version 1.1.