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

NAME

obdistgengenerate rough 3D coordinates for SMILES (or other 0D files)

SYNOPSIS

obdistgen filename

DESCRIPTION

Generates SDFs with distance geometry.

ENVIRONMENT

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).

EXAMPLES

obdistgen molecule.smi > molecule.sdf

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

SEE ALSO

obgen(1).

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AUTHORS

Open Babel is developed by a cast of many, including current maintainers Geoff Hutchison, Chris Morley, Michael Banck, and innumerable others who have contributed fixes and additions. For more contributors to Open Babel, see <https://openbabel.org/docs/Introduction/thanks.html>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1998-2001 by OpenEye Scientific Software, Inc.
Some portions Copyright (C) 2001-2007 by Geoffrey R. Hutchison and other contributors.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation version 2 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

May 26, 2026 Open Babel 3.2