Re: [ccp4bb]: surface area calculations

["Mario Sanches" <sanchez@if.sc.usp.br>]

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> Greetings,
> 	
> 	Are there programs which will calculate 
> accessible surface area and give a breakdown in
> terms of exposed area for polar versus nonpolar 
> atoms?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Please send replies to the bulletin board.
> 

There are a program from Mr. Hubbard called NACCESS which will calculate
accessible surface area given a pdb. The output of this program can be used as
imput for program dimplot (as a part of ligplot). This program will generate a
graphic analysis that will show polar and nonpolar interactions. 

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Mario Sanches, PhD student
Universidade de São Paulo
Instituto de Física de São Carlos
Protein Crystallography Group