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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 20 2005 - 15:20:13 CDT

Hi,
  The sasa routine is so short that you can read it for yourself, as
I don't have the journal article you're referring to handy.
 
Scroll down to the bottom of this page to see the implementation:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/doxygen/Measure_8C-source.html

The measure_sasa() routine definition is perhaps easier to jump from:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/doxygen/Measure_8C.html#a15

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 08:12:24AM -0700, Basak Isin wrote:
> Hello,
> How does the sasa command calculate the surface accesibility in VMD?
> In general, softwares calculate surface accesibility by imlpementing the method in Lee and Richards (1971) J.Mol.Biol.55, 379-400. Is this also true for VMD?
> thanks,
> basak
>
>
>
> Basak Isin
>
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