Msms surface

Included in psico This command or function is available from psico, which is a PyMOL extension.
Module	psico.msms

msms_surface calculates a molecular surface with MSMS and loads it into PyMOL as a CGO.

Installation

msms_surface is available from the psico package and requires the msms binary.

For Linux, all dependencies are available from Anaconda Cloud:

conda install -c schrodinger pymol
conda install -c schrodinger pymol-psico
conda install -c bioconda msms

Usage

msms_surface [ selection [, state [, density [, name
    [, atomcolors [, exe [, preserve ]]]]]]]

Arguments

• selection = str: atom selection {default: polymer}
• state = int: object state {default: 1}
• density = float: MSMS surface point density {default: 3}
• name = str: name of CGO object to create
• atomcolors = 0/1: color surface by atom colors {default: 0}
• exe = str: path to msms binary {default: find in $PATH}
• preserve = 0/1: don't delete msms generated files {default: 0}

Examples

Use atom colors:

import psico.msms
fetch 1ubq, async=0
msms_surface atomcolors=1

Use a solid color:

msms_surface name=bluesurf
color blue, bluesurf

See Also

• MSMS (plugin with GUI)
• surface