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Motivation
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You have molecule A and B and want to calculate the structural difference
between those two. If you just calculate the RMSD_ straight-forward you might
get a too big of a value as seen below. You would need to first recenter the
two molecules and then rotate them unto each other to get the true minimal
RMSD. This is what this script does.
I want to know the minimal RMSD between two molecules
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You have two molecules, A and B, and want to calculate the structural difference between them. If you just calculate the RMSD straight-forward, you might get too big a value, as seen below. You need to recenter and rotate the two molecules to get the true minimal RMSD. This is what this code does.

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.. |rotate| image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charnley/rmsd/master/img/plot_rotated.png


I do not know the order of the atoms
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If atoms in molecules A and B are not in the same order, you will need to reorder the atoms first to get the correct rotation for minimal RMSD.

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