Molecular Surfaces & Volumes:

Molecular Surface Programs :

• ACCESS : ACCESS : Surface accessibility. Program written by B. Lee, F. M.Richards and M. Handschumacher.
• Argos-ASC : EMBL Argos Group : The Analytic Surface Calculation Package for Molecular Systems. Argos-ASC. Collection of tools for Surface and Volume Calculation.
• GETAREA : Calculation of solvent accesible surface areas, atomic solvation energies and their gradients for macromolecules. Manual.
• HARMONY : B. S. Duncan ( Molecular Graphics Laboratory ) : Spherical Harmonic Representations of Molecular surfaces. HARMONY.
• Molviewer-ogl : Molviewer-ogl. Molecular graphics software developed at York by Mike Hartshorn. Molecular Surfaces can be generated for all or part of a molecular structure.
  Construction of a partial molecular Surface: GIF Image 600x400pixels. Sialic acid Binding Site at Neuraminidase with bound Acid Molecule.
• MSM : Michael Sanner's MSMS
• MSP : MSP : Molecular Surface Package. MSP : User Manual. Copyright 1996 by Michael L. Connolly.
• NACCESS : Atomic Solvent Accessible Area Calculations. Home Page.
• SURFNET : Program generates generates surfaces and void regions between surfaces from coordinate data supplied in the PDB file. Home Page.

Other Web-Sites :

• An Introduction To Molecular Surfaces.
  By Glenn Proctor, University of York, England.
• TJ O'Donnel : The Science and Art of Molecular Surfaces. The Scientific and Artistic Uses of Molecular Surfaces.
• More Info : Other Links.
• M. L. Connolly : Molecular Surfaces-A Review.

Molecular Volumes :

• PROVE : Protein Volume Evaluation.
• VOLUME : Residue Voronoi Volumes.

References:

• B. Duncan & A. Olson ( 1991 ) : Shape Analysis of Protein Surfaces. (Research Institute of Scripps Clinic . La Jolla).
• Connolly's Bibliography.
• SMART: A solvent-accesible triangulated Surface generator for Molecular Graphics and Boundary Element Applications. J-CAMD 283. Randy J. Zauhar.