how to find help informations on rosetta_scripts in rosetta3.10

Unfortunatly, the documentation for some of our examples is less than one could hope for.

For general information about RosettaScripts, see https://www.rosettacommons.org/docs/latest/scripting_documentation/Scripting-Documentation This will give you info about RosettaScripts in general, and how each of the individual components behave, but will not necessarily give you any information about full protocols.

The  rosetta_scripts_scripts directory is an attempt to do a better job of documenting and disseminating various full protocols in RosettaScripts. However, until early-ish 2019 (which would include Rosetta 3.10) the directory was present but none of the contents were included in the released versions. This has nothing to do with compilation — the compilation should only affect the binarys in the main/source/bin directory. Any of the text-based files (such as example XMLs) would not be part of the compilation.

The main/source/scripts/rosetta_scripts/public/ was an earlier attempt to disseminate RosettaScripts XMLs. The general outline may have been scaffolded, but the actual content may not have ever made it into those locations.

Generally speaking, the best place to find example XML scripts is in the published literature. If you find a paper using Rosetta to do something you’re interested in (or doing something similar to what you’re interested in) you should look into which scripts they’re using, and if they include those scripts as part of a protocol capture or as a separate repository. Unfortunately, you’re often at the mercy of the paper author as to how much/how in depth they document such scripts. Often there’s only de minimis documentation about the script, and you’ll have to infer the proper usage from the context it was used in the paper.