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From: Full cyclic coordinate descent: solving the protein loop closure problem in Cα space

Figure 2

The action of the FCCD algorithm in Cα space. The Cα traces of the moving, fixed and closed segments are shown in red, green and blue, respectively. The Cα atoms are represented as spheres. The labels f0, f1 and f2 indicate the three fixed vectors at the N-terminus that are initially common between the fixed and moving segments. The loop is closed when the three C-terminal vectors of the moving segment (labelled mN-3, mN-2, mN-1) superimpose with an RMSD below the given threshold on the three C-terminal vectors of the fixed segment (labelled (fN-3, fN-2, fN-1). This figure and Figure 3 were made with PyMol http://www.pymol.org.

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