OBDISTGEN(1) General Commands Manual (urm) OBDISTGEN(1)

obdistgen — generate rough 3D coordinates for SMILES (or other 0D files)

obdistgen filename

Generates SDFs with distance geometry.

Seed for pseudo random number generator; random seed is used if unset or null. This feature is effective if Open Babel is built with -DOB_USE_OBRANDOMMT cpreprocessor flag (will be automatically enabled when version 4 is released).

obdistgen molecule.smi > molecule.sdf

Generate rough 3D coordinates for molecule.smi and write it to molecule.sdf

obgen(1).

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