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Surface Racer calculates exact accessible surface area, molecular surface area, and average curvature of molecular surface for macromolecules. The program also analyzes cavities in the protein interior inaccessible from outside.^[1]

See also

• AREAIMOL is a command line tool in the CCP4 Program Suite for calculating ASA.
• SURFNET — generates surfaces and void regions between surfaces from coordinate data supplied in a PDB file.
• naccess
• DMS — compute molecular surfaces.
• PPI-Pred — protein-protein interface prediction.
• SuMo — screen the Protein Data Bank (PDB) for finding ligand binding sites matching a protein structure or inversely, for finding protein structures matching a given site in a protein.
• SPACE — tools for Structure Prediction and Analysis based on Complementarity with Environment.
• MSMS — compute very efficiently triangulations of Solvent Excluded Surfaces.
• VOIDOO Package — a program for detection of cavities in macromolecular structures.
• sGAL — software for finding surface exposed sites in proteins suitable for Cys-mediated cross-linking.
• GETAREA — Solvent Accessible Surface Areas, Atomic Solvation Energies, and Their Gradients for Macromolecules.

References

1. ↑ Tsodikov OV, Record, Jr MT, Sergeev YV (2002). "A novel computer program for fast exact calculation of accessible and molecular surface areas and average surface curvature". J Comput Chem, 23:600-609.

Further reading

• Woolley GA, Lee E, Zhang F (2006). "sGAL: a computational method for finding surface exposed sites in proteins suitable for Cys-mediated cross-linking". Bioinformatics, 22(24):3101-3102. DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl530 .
• Jambon M (2006-08-10). "Protein volume". Wikiomics.org (accessed 2007-04-27).

External links

• Surface Racer website
• Network Science, Part 5: Solvent-Accessible Surfaces