How do I find distance between 2 atoms in a molecule and save it into my workspace using the BioInformatics Toolbox for MATLAB?

I have looked up the demo on Visualizing the Three Dimensional structure of a molecule in the link below:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2016b/bioinfo/examples/visualizing-the-three-dimensional-structure-of-a-molecule.html

In that demo, there is a portion named 'Measuring Atomic Distances' that has an example. The outcome of the example shows the distance on the Molecule Viewer. Is there a way to get this distance into the MATLAB workspace instead of displaying it on the figure?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This is not directly possible because evalrasmolscript executes the script using JMOL and does not return the value back. It instead displays the result in the molecule viewer. 

As a workaround, you may manually calculate the distance based on the coordinatees of the atoms. An example has been attached to demonstrate how this is done.