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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Protoc. 2015 Oct 1;10(11):1643–1669. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2015.103
Flag [input] Description
–help Displays available flags with descriptions.
–ssRegion [.txt file] Forces nucleotides in the user-supplied file SSREGION to be single stranded. See SuperFold readme for file format description.
–pkRegion [.txt file] Models structure around pseudoknotted base pairs in the supplied PKREGION file. See SuperFold readme for file format description.
–np [int] Sets the number of processors (NP) available to SuperFold. Default: 2.
–SHAPEslope [float] SHAPE pseudo-free energy slope used for structure modeling. Value optimized in previous work19,20. Default: 1.8 kcal/mol.
–SHAPEintercept [float] SHAPE pseudo-free energy slope used for structure modeling. Value optimized in previous work20. Default: – 0.6 kcal/mol.
–differentialFile [.txt file] User-supplied differential SHAPE file calculated from NMIA-1M6. Refines ΔGSHAPE energy function21.
–differentialSlope [float] Sets the pseudo free-energy slope for the differential SHAPE reactivity values. Default: 2.1 kcal/mol.
–trimInterior [int] Number of nucleotides to trim from interior partition function and fold calculations. Default: 300.
–partitionWindowSize [int] Length of the partition function window size. Default: 1200 nucleotides.
–partitionStepSize [int] Spacing between partition function windows. Default: 100 nucleotides.
–foldWindowSize [int] Length of the Fold window size. Default: 3000 nucleotides.
–foldStepSize [int] Spacing between Fold windows. Default: 300 nucleotides.
–drawSS Include secondary structure diagrams for expanded regions of low SHAPE and Shannon entropy using the Pseudoviewer58 web service.