A very fast program for visualizing protein surfaces, channels and cavities.
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.
Voorintholt
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Department of Computer Science, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
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D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D008433:Mathematics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*
D011506:Proteins