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<p class="MsoNormal">I have conducted a superposition between two of the same protein where one was obtained by X ray and the other was predicted by alphafold. I wanted to use the RMSD value of the alignment rather then just have qualitative results but I am
unsure of how to interpret the values given by chimera. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When I get the output of for example: RMSD between 189 pruned atom pairs is 1.164 angstroms; (across all 553 pairs: 10.750), what exactly do these two outputs mean, which one should I be using and how exactly do I interpret this?<o:p></o:p></p>
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