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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2013 - 11:37:49 CDT

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Peterson J <peterson.jjjj_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello VMD Users,
>
> I am trying to calculate the angle between two domains of my protein. I have
> calculated the inertia for both domains which provided me the center of mass
> and the principal axes of each domain. But I have a problem calculating the
> angle using the two principal axes. The 'measure angle' asks for three atom
> indices.
>
> How do I measure it?

how do you compute the angle between two vectors?

axel.

>
> Thanks
>
> Peter 

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International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.