title: A very fast program for visualizing protein surfaces, channels and cavities.
abstract: A method for visualizing molecular surfaces is described that uses a grid to store the distance to the nearest atom. Using on-the-fly three-dimensional (3D) contouring of a molecular graphics program such as FRODO, one can obtain a good impression of van der Waals surfaces and solvent-accessible surfaces. The main advantages of the method described here are its high speed and the fact that no recalculations need to be done to obtain the solvent-accessible surface visualized for a probe with another radius.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Voorintholt
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Kosters
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vegter
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vriend
authors.forename: W G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Hol
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D008433:Mathematics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins