[Chimera-users] Display solvent-accessible surface?

[Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E]]

Hi there,

I’ve tried searching the archives and found some interesting information, but nothing specific to this question. Elaine’s response was particularly helpful:
http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2009-February/003597.html

>From the documentation, it seems that Chimera only displays solvent-excluded surfaces:
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/representation.html#surfaces

I understand that I can map solvent-accessibility to this surface using “Render Attributes”, but I would like to display the actual solvent-accessible surface. I want to do this because it is my understanding that electrostatic potential mapping to a solvent-accessible surface is often more informative than to a solvent-excluded surface:
http://www.poissonboltzmann.org/apbs/examples/visualization/apbs-electrostatics-in-pymol#TOC-Surface-potentials

Can it be done?

Thanks,
Darrell


Darrell Hurt, Ph.D.
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