Best Method for Calculating Solvent Accessible Surface Area?

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The discussion centers on methods for calculating solvent accessible surface area (SASA) in the context of protein folding and protein-ligand docking. Participants mention Midas and MidasPlus as tools previously used for this purpose, noting that MidasPlus has been replaced by Chimera. An overview paper is referenced, which includes a link to MidasPlus and discusses its relevance in computational chemistry. There is a request for information on where to find the code for these tools, indicating a need for accessible resources in this area of study.
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Hi,

what do you think is the best method to determine/calculate in a
computationally efficient way the solvent accessible surface area in
phenomena like protein folding or protein-ligand docking ?

Thanks
 
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This is not my discipline but I recall reading about Midas and MidasPlus a while ago. I think you can still look at the code and see what is going on.

Here is an overview paper, you might take a look, it has a link to MidasPlus.
http://www.netsci.org/Science/Compchem/feature14e.html
 
do you know where the code can be found ?

jim mcnamara said:
This is not my discipline but I recall reading about Midas and MidasPlus a while ago. I think you can still look at the code and see what is going on.

Here is an overview paper, you might take a look, it has a link to MidasPlus.
http://www.netsci.org/Science/Compchem/feature14e.html
 
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