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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2019

Calculation of accurate interatomic contact surface areas for the quantitative analysis of non-bonded molecular interactions.

Judemir Ribeiro, Carlos Ríos-Vera, Francisco Melo, Andreas Schüller

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Judemir RibeiroDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Carlos Ríos-VeraDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Francisco MeloDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Andreas SchüllerDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile · CL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

summaryIntra- and intermolecular contact surfaces are routinely calculated for a large array of applications in bioinformatics but are typically approximated from differential solvent accessible surface area calculations and not calculated directly. These approximations do not properly take the effects of neighboring atoms into account and tend to deviate considerably from the true contact surface. We implemented an extension of the original Shrake-Rupley algorithm to accurately estimate interatomic contact surface areas of molecular structures and complexes. Our extended algorithm is able to calculate the contact area of an atom to all nearby atoms by directly calculating overlapping surface patches, taking into account the possible shielding effects of neighboring atoms. Here, we present a versatile software tool and web server for the calculation of contact surface areas, as well as buried surface areas and solvent accessible surface areas (SASA) for different types of biomolecules, such as proteins, nucleic acids and small organic molecules. Detailed results are provided in tab-separated values format for analysis and Protein Databank files for visualization. Direct contact surface area calculation resulted in improved accuracy in a benchmark with a non-redundant set of 245 protein-DNA complexes. SASA-based approximations underestimated protein-DNA contact surfaces on average by 40%. This software tool may be useful for surface-based intra- and intermolecular interaction analyses and scoring function development. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: A web server, stand-alone binaries for Linux, MacOS and Windows and C++ source code are freely available from http://schuellerlab.org/dr_sasa/. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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