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SUBMITTER: Liu P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2958452 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Pu P Agrafiotis Dimitris K DK Theobald Douglas L DL
Journal of computational chemistry 20100501 7
Finding the rotational matrix that minimizes the sum of squared deviations between two vectors is an important problem in bioinformatics and crystallography. Traditional algorithms involve the inversion or decomposition of a 3 x 3 or 4 x 4 matrix, which can be computationally expensive and numerically unstable in certain cases. Here, we present a simple and robust algorithm to rapidly determine the optimal rotation using a Newton-Raphson quaternion-based method and an adjoint matrix. Our method ...[more]