From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2012 - 10:06:21 CST

Aaron,
  The -samples option just changes the number of samples used to
approximate the surface area. The default sample count is 500 per atom,
you can increase it to improve the accuracty somewhat.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:50:08AM +1100, Aaron Oakley wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> with regard to the measure sasa command:
>
> sasa srad selection [-points varname] [-restrict restrictedsel] [-samples numsamples]
>
> The -samples option is not described in the manual. I gather this affects the number of points
> that are generated, but in what way?
>
>

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