A new Python package named ‘dssp_parser‘ is developed to parse DSSP files. This package fetches all helices including long and short ones from DSSP files. dssp_parser consists of Python scripts that extract long and short helices in separate files. You have to assign secondary structures using DSSP [1] to the PDB [2] structures from which you … Continue reading dssp_parser: A new Python package to extract helices from DSSP files.