>>>> Bob Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2/29/2008 6:09 AM >>>
>By the way, Karl, I recommend NOT including the "sasurface" keyword in 
>your isosurface pocket command, or if you do, use "sasurface 0". When 
>you use sasurface just by itself it adds 1.2 Angstroms to the Van der 
>Waals radius. That's fine for an overall approximation of the molecular 
>surface, but it doesn't really give (in my opinion) the appropriate 
>sense of how large a cavity is. The real cavity size is better 
>represented by the Van der Waals surface, I think.
>
>Bob
>

If I use cavity rather than sasurface as the keyword I obtain more
realistic looking cavities.  For clarity of my own thinking, does cavity
give a Van der Waals surface?

Karl


>Karl Oberholser wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> Up until about a month ago I successfully made surfaces from jvxl 
>> files that I copied from the console using the show command.  Since 
>> that time the surfaces generated from the jvxl files are not the same 
>> as the original computed surface.  The jvxl files made before that 
>> time still generate the correct surface.  The link below contains two 
>> examples.
>>  
>> http://www.messiah.edu/departments/chemistry/molscilab/jtat_ 
>080120/acetylcholinesterase/testing/chapter.htm 
>>  
>> Karl
>>  
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