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The root mean square deviation (RMSD), without the size dependency correction is?(a) \(\sum_{i=1}^N \frac{D_i^2}{N}\)(b) \(\sum_{i=1}^N \frac{D_i^2}{N + 1}\)(c) \(\sum_{i=1}^N \frac{D_i^2}{N x N}\)(d) \(\sum_{i=1}^N \frac{D_i^2}{N – 1}\)The question was posed to me in an internship interview.My question comes from Protein Structure Comparison in chapter Structural Bioinformatics of Bioinformatics

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Correct answer is (a) \(\sum_{i=1}^N \frac{D_i^2}{N}\)

For explanation: An important measurement of the structure FIT during superposition is the DISTANCE between equivalent positions on the protein structures. This requires using a LEAST square-fitting function called root mean square deviation (RMSD), which is the square root of the averaged sum of the squared differences of the atomic distances. Here D is the distance between coordinate data points and N is the total number of CORRESPONDING residue pairs.



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