MSMS

Another molecular surface renderer is MSMS, a program written by Michael Sanner of Olsen's lab at Scripps. This program is much faster than the Surf code in both generating the initial surface and then in manipulating the surface after it is built. See the web page http://www.scripps.edu/pub/olson-web/people/sanner/html/msms_home.html for more details. Available options include

• All Atoms - should the surface be of the selection (0) or of the contribution of this selection to the surface of all the atoms? (1)
• Density - triangle density on the surface (typical values are 1.0 for molecules with more than one thousand atoms and 3.0 for smaller molecules)
• Probe - Probe radius used to construct the molecular surface