Does Mustang Have Source Code Or Applet?

Question

[joey0214.zhong]

MUSTANG is a Multiple Structural Alignment Algorithm. I want to use this algorithm in my own java program, so does this algorithm have source code or applet to embed into my own program? thanks in advance!

Answer 1

[Hamish]

The MUSTANG software is available from: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~karun/Site/mustang.html

MUSTANG is distributed as C++ source code and will need to be compiled to be used. To use this from Java you will have to run it as an external program.

[joey0214.zhong]

Thanks. Do you know how to change the output results? It generate a results.pdb contains several structure coordinates, but I want every structure in single PDB file after aligned.

[Hamish]

I am not aware of a way to do that. You should check the documentation, and if that does not help try contacting the authors of the program to see if there is an undocumented feature for doing what you require. Otherwise is sounds like you may have to process the resulting PDB file yourself to separate the structures (you might find the PDB format documentation helpful for this).

[joey0214.zhong]

Thanks for your help