DSSP file Parser - Python package to parse DSSP files to extract all helices from .dssp files

Introduction

This package parses DSSP files and gives you all helices in separate files. Requires Python3

Prepare your files

Save all DSSP files of the PDB structures in 'dssp_files' direcotry. These files can be obtained from the PDB structures using DSSP.

Test data is provided in the given directories.

Usage

$ python3 parse_longH_dssp.py

$ python3 parse_shortH_dssp.py

The program will fetch all long helices denoted by 'H' in longH_output direcotry and all short ones (denoted by 'G') in shortH_output direcotry.

You can also find start and end residues of each helix using the script "start_end_hel.py".

$ python3 start_end_helix_res.py

The output is provided in "start_end.csv" file.