AssigningSecondaryStructure provides a way to assign loops, helices, and strands to protein backbones using a simplified version of the DSSP algorithm.
Both the BioStructures.jl and ProteinSecondaryStructures.jl packages provide interfaces for more sophisticated secondary structure assignment, but they both call the DSSP_jll.jl binary under the hood, which requires writing structures to a file, leading to significant overhead.
The package is registered in the General registry, and can be installed from the REPL with ]add AssigningSecondaryStructure.
julia> using AssigningSecondaryStructure
julia> assign_secondary_structure("test/data/1ASS.pdb") # 1 chain
1-element Vector{Vector{Int64}}:
[1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1 … 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1]
julia> assign_secondary_structure("test/data/1ZAK.pdb") # 2 chains
2-element Vector{Vector{Int64}}:
[1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 … 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1]
[1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 … 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1]The assign_secondary_structure function can also take a vector of atom coordinate arrays of size (3, 3, L), in cases where the atom coordinates are already loaded. The first axis is for the x, y, and z coordinates, the second axis is for the atom types (N, CA, C), and the third axis is for the residues.
This package was originally ported from the PyDSSP package, created by Shintaro Minami. The code has since been rewritten to look more like the 1983 paper (Kabsch W and Sander C), and to be more Julian, understandable, and efficient, at the cost of it no longer being differentiable like the PyDSSP version.