I am looking through the Biopython Tutorial and Cookbook (http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.html) and in order to look at DSSP files with biopython, I need to obtain a copy and license of DSSP from this link (https://swift.cmbi.umcn.nl/gv/dssp/). Could somebody please explain how I take the files from github and install them to my computer? I downloaded the files on my computer and put them in my current working directory in python and I'm still not able to use DSSP files in biopython
Thank you. As a follow up question., how can I make sure that the dssp binary is in $PATH?
If you went through conda, it should take care of that for you.
You can test it by running:
which dssp
orwhich mkdssp
.One of those should print you a file path. On my machine for example, I get this:
That should be sufficient for BioPython.
which
is not always available on all OSs, so you can also usetype
. In any event, you should see its install path printed out. If you dont, this means it is not in the$PATH
*or conda itself isn't configured correctly, but come back to us if that's the case.