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| STRIDE was initially developed for UNIX and thoroughly tested on 3000 PDB files and many |
| different computers. For Macintosh I compiled STRIDE using the commercially available Metrowerks C |
| compiler. Two versions of the executable were prepared stored in BinHex format: mac68K.hqx for older |
| Macs and powmac.hqx for PowerMacintosh. |
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| NOTE ABOUT INTERFACE: STRIDE uses unix-style command line interface. Since Mac has no command |
| line, I had to use the SIOUX console IO library and modify main() (file stride.c) by adding |
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| #include "stride.h" |
| #include <console.h> |
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| main().... |
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| Note that these two lines are commented out in the source code, so if you want to recompile |
| the program, you will have to uncomment them. |
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| Now if you click on the appropriate executable, a simple window pops up where you can type |
| all command line parameters exactly as under UNIX, for example: |
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| 1acp.brk -h -f1acp.str (see documentation). |
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| After you press RETURN, the computer will freeze for 1 to 20 minutes, dependent on the PDB |
| structure size, and then come back to life again. The PowerMac version is 10-20 times faster |
| on a PowerMac than mac68K.bin. |
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| If you need a fancier, more Macintosh-like interface, you are more than welcome to develop |
| it. I am perfectly willing to cooperate, so please do not hesitate to contact me. |
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| IMPORTANT NOTE: I am not a Mac expert and this is the first time I used a Mac for anything |
| other than typing text. I have no idea about Mac's architecture. For example, the current |
| settings of minimal and typical memory required for the program and stack size were made |
| essentially randomly. You might want to change these settings using the appropriate Mac |
| utilities. Any feedback is welcome. Also, since I do not know how to run command scripts |
| on Mac (is it possible?), the only way for me to test the program was to type command line |
| parameters for every PDB file. I did it for about 100 randomly selected PDB structures and |
| the results were correct. Still this is only a limited test... |
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| Dmitrij Frishman |
| European Molecular Biology Laboratory |
| Meyerhofstr. 1, 69012 Heidelberg, Germany |
| tel. +49 -6221 - 387231 |
| fax. +49 -6221 - 387517 |
| frishman@embl-heidelberg.de |
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