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In its conventional form, RMSD assigns equal weight to all atoms regardless of mobility. Hence, flexible loops and disordered regions can dominate a global RMSD, while the rigid functional core contributes negligibly to the overall metric. To address this issue, we introduce the Bayes-optimal RMSD (BRMSD), which optimizes per-atom weights jointly with structural averages by maximizing a Bayesian posterior. In a trade-off between low RMSD and weight uniformity, a position-fluctuation parameter \u03c3 controls the transition from classical RMSD (\u03c3 \u2192 \u221e) to a progressive focus on a rigid core (\u03c3 \u2192 0). The BRMSD framework supports analysis modules for structural alignment, focused alignment onto a user-specified domain, trajectory smoothing, soft K-means conformational clustering, and rigid-domain identification. 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