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TM-align: protein and RNA structure alignment by TM-score superposition.
This program was written by (in reverse chronological order)
Chengxin Zhang, Sha Gong, Jianjie Wu, and Jianyi Yang
at Yang Zhang lab, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics,
University of Michigan, 100 Washtenaw Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2218.
Please report issues to yangzhanglab@umich.edu
References to cite:
S Gong, C Zhang, Y Zhang. Bioinformatics, btz282 (2019)
Y Zhang, J Skolnick. Nucl Acids Res 33, 2302-9 (2005)
DISCLAIMER:
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this program for
any purpose, with or without fee, is hereby granted, provided that
the notices on the head, the reference information, and this
copyright notice appear in all copies or substantial portions of
the Software. It is provided "as is" without express or implied
warranty.
*** updating history ****
2012/01/24: A C/C++ code of TM-align was constructed by J Yang
2016/05/21: Several updates of this program were made by J Wu, including
(1) fixed several compiling bugs
(2) made I/O of C/C++ version consistent with the Fortran version
(3) added outputs including full-atom and ligand structures
(4) added options of '-i', '-I' and '-m'
2016/05/25: fixed a bug on PDB file reading
2018/06/04: Several updates were made by C Zhang, including
(1) Fixed bug in reading PDB files with negative residue index,
at the expense of the '-o' option now only being able to
output superposed structure instead of full rasmol script.
(2) Implemented the fTM-align algorithm (by the '-fast' option)
as described in R Dong, S Pan, Z Peng, Y Zhang, J Yang
(2018) Nucleic acids research. gky430.
(3) Included option to perform TM-align against a whole
folder of PDB files. A full list of options not available
in the Fortran version can be explored by TMalign -h
2018/07/27: Added the -byresi option for TM-score superposition without
re-alignment as in TMscore and TMscore -c
2018/08/07: Added the -dir option
2018/08/14: Added the -split option
2018/08/16: Added the -infmt1, -infmt2 options.
TMalign can now read .gz and .bz2 compressed files.
2018/10/20: C Zhang and S Gong updated the RNA alignment part of
the program. Changes include:
(1) new d0 calculation for RNA.
(2) secondary structure assignment for RNA.
(3) automatic detection of molecule type (protein vs RNA).
2019/01/07: C Zhang added support for PDBx/mmCIF format.
2019/02/09: Fixed asymmetric alignment bug.
2019/03/17: Added the -cp option for circular permutation
2019/03/27: Added the -mirror option for mirror structure alignment
2019/04/25: The RNA-align algorithm was published by Bioinformatics
2019/07/24: Fixed bug in displaying matching residues.
Added GDT and MaxSub to TMscore program.
2019/08/18: Prevent excessive circular permutation alignment by -cp.
2020/05/19: Add back rasmol output
2020/12/12: Fixed bug in double precision coordinate mmcif alignment
2021/01/07: Fixed bug in TMscore -c
2021/05/29: Remove unnecessary depedency on malloc.h, which prevent
compilation on Mac OS
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How to install TM-align
To compile the program in your Linux computer, simply enter
make
or
g++ -static -O3 -ffast-math -lm -o TMalign TMalign.cpp
The '-static' flag should be removed on Mac OS, which does not support
building static executables.
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How to use TM-align
You can run the program without arguments to obtain a brief instruction
./TMalign structure1.pdb structure2.pdb
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Fortran version
You can download the fortran version of TM-align from
https://zhanglab.ccmb.med.umich.edu/TM-align/
This C++ version of TM-align implemented several features not available in the
fortran version, including RNA alignment and batch alignment of multiple
structures. A full list of available options can be explored by:
./TMalign -h
2021/05/20