SURFNET v.1.4

Written by Roman A Laskowski

Description

van der Waals surfaces
Gaps between molecules
Clefts, cavities and binding sites
3D density distributions and sidechain-sidechain interactions
Planes, paraboloids and boxes


Operating Manual (in HTML)


Reference

Outputs

The surfaces computed by SURFNET are output in a number of formats for printing or for display/rendering on a graphics terminal using:-

• AVS - (Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Waltham, MA, USA)
• CCP4 - (Collaborative Computational Project, Number 4, 1994)
• FRODO - (Jones, 1978)
• Insight II - (Molecular Simulations Inc., Burlington, MA, USA)
• O - (Jones et al., 1991)
• PostScript - (Adobe Systems Inc., 1985)
• QUANTA - (Molecular Simulations Inc., Burlington, MA, USA)
• RASMOL - (Sayle & Milner-White, 1995)
• Raster3D - (Bacon & Anderson, 1988; Merritt & Murphy, 1994 )
• SYBYL - (Tripos Associates, Inc., St Louis, MO, USA)

Availability

Source code can be picked up from the directory:-

pub/surfnet

This contains all the files concatenated into a single, encrypted tar file, surfnet.tar.Z.enc.

The Operating Manual is in a gzipped tar file manual.tar.gz (not encrypted).

Users must sign a Confidentiality Agreement, supplied with the source code, and return it to the author to get the decryption key.

Further details, including up-to-date release details, can be found in the README file.