SSAP: Sequential Structure Alignment Program.
Method for automatically comparing three dimensional protein structures using double dynamic programming

Written by Willie Taylor and Christine Orengo

References:-

W.R. Taylor & C.A. Orengo, (1989), J. Mol. Biol., 1:500.

W.R. Taylor & C.A. Orengo, (1989), Protein Engineering, 2:505.

C.A. Orengo & W.R. Taylor, (1990), J. Theor. Biol., 147:

C.A. Orengo, N.P.Brown & W.R. Taylor, (1992), Proteins, 14:139.

Automatically generates alignment files and transformed PDB coordinates for superposing the aligned structures

Availability

Available free to academic institutions by anonymous ftp on: ftp.biochem.ucl.ac.uk in directory pub/cathssap

To download via the Web:-

To download via the Web, hold down the SHIFT key and click on each underlined entry below.

ssap.tar.Z.enc - source files concatenated into a single compressed and encrypted tar file. To get the decryption key you must complete and return the Confidentiality Agreement (see below).
confid.txt - Confidentiality Agreement, which you must sign and return. You will then be given the key for decrypting the source code.

NOTE: the program WOLF used to generate the input data files for SSAP is a modified version of the program DSSP written by Kabsch & Sander (1983).

The License agreement for the DSSP program can be obtained from DSSP web site

orengo@bsm.bioc.ucl.ac.uk
Structure and Modelling Group
Biomolecular Structure and Modelling Group
University College London