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From: Vlad Cojocaru (vlad.cojocaru_at_mpi-muenster.mpg.de)
Date: Thu Nov 26 2015 - 02:18:55 CST

HI Ana,

Thanks .. Sure, I knew that programs like Matlab, R, etc. can do that
... But as I am building a workflow in VMD, I hoped there might be a
(not obvious) way to do it in VMD as well.

Best
Vlad

On 11/26/2015 08:08 AM, Ana Celia Vila Verde wrote:
> That's best done in Matlab (see
> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/32502,
> for example) with SVD; VMD is not a fitting program. Once you have
> the equation, then you can select two points and plot the line in VMD,
> if that's useful to you.
>
> Ana
>
>
> On 25/11/15 17:10, Vlad Cojocaru wrote:
>> Dear VMD users,
>>
>> Is there a way to do a line fit on 3D data points in VMD ? In other
>> words, if I have a number of 3D points can I find the vector
>> representing the line that best fits those points ?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Vlad
>>
> 

-- 
Dr. Vlad Cojocaru
Computational Structural Biology Laboratory
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
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