obconformer(1) User's Reference Manual obconformer(1)NAMEobconformer — generate conformer coordinates
SYNOPSISobconformer # of conformers # of optimization steps filename
DESCRIPTION
The obconformer tool can be used as part of a conformational study by
generating random conformers using a Monte Carlo search. The best con‐
former out of the batch of conformers will be output, after taking the
supplied number of geometry optimization steps. By default, obconformer
uses the MMFF94 force field.
EXAMPLESobconformer 250 100 baseconformer.sdf >rotamer1.sdf
Generate the best conformer (out of 250) of baseconformer.sdf and write
it to rotamer1.sdf after 100 geometry optimization steps
SEE ALSObabel(1), obenergy(1), obfit(1), obgrep(1), obminimize(1), obrotate(1).
The web pages for Open Babel can be found at: <http://openbabel.org/>
AUTHORS
Open Babel is developed by a cast of many, including currrent maintainers
Geoff Hutchison, Chris Morley, Michael Banck, and innumerable others who
have contributed fixes and additions. For more contributors to Open
Babel, see <http://openbabel.org/wiki/THANKS>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1998-2001 by OpenEye Scientific Software, Inc.
Some portions Copyright (C) 2001-2008 by Geoffrey R. Hutchison and other
contributors.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation version 2 of the License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABIL‐
ITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
License for more details.
Open Babel 2.2 July 4, 2008 Open Babel 2.2
