Fred,
I think Lieven answered the second part, so I'll answer the first:
PyMOL's surfaces are discrete approximations of the solvent contact surface
(the surface of waters in contact with the protein at all possible
positions).
I generally think of the "solvent accessible surface" as being the
On Sunday 14 March 2004 06:27, Fred Berkovitch wrote:
> When I type "show surface", how is that surface calculated? Is it a true
> solvent-accessible surface? Does PyMol take into account heteroatoms
> (e.g., a metal or an Fe-S cluster) in the calculation?
As for the latter question, this is det
