RoadMap

Name

Purpose

Author

Michael Chapman

Institute of Molecular Biophysics,
and Department of Chemistry
Biochemistry Division
The Florida State University,
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380,
e-mail: chapman@iris1.sb.fsu.edu

http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~rsref/
rsref@sb.fsu.edu 
Tel: (850) 644-8354
FAX: (850) 644-3257

Reference

RoadMap can use a variety of projections to map the van der Waal's or solvent accessible surface of a macromolecule onto a plane. It creates a PostScript file showing the boundaries of each residue that can be printed or displayed on a workstation with a PostScript interpreter. Onto the map the user can overlay properties such as the surface topography, sequence conservation, hydrophobicity, atomic solvation or any other user-defined parameter, using a combination of contouring, black-and-white shading, and coloring. The map can be annotated.

*ABSTRACT*:Methods are presented for the rapid computation of schematic projections of the surfaces of macromolecules, similar to the "roadmaps" used to illustrate the surfaces of viruses (Rossmann, M.G.& Palmenberg, A.C., 1988, Virology 164, 373-382). Several types of projections are described, extending the application of ``roadmaps'' to the external surfaces of all macromolecules and their interior binding pockets and pores. The surface projections, showing the positions of residues, can be colored, shaded, contoured, and annotated to show physical, sequence, or functional properties such as surface topology, hydrophobicity, or sequence conservation, for example. The automated procedures are useful for surveys of the surface features of proteins sharing similar functional properties.

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Postscript output.

Licence agreement included in this directory as a PostScript file (The only version I have I do not have a text only version). To print it send it to a postscript printer e.g. with the "font utility" of Macintosh system 7.x operating system.

Licencing is *required*. The program should be free of charge at least for a non-profit organisation. However if you make money by using the program then an arrangenment should be made with Purdue....

Source code not available.

The program is written in Fortran 77 and the author should be able to provide you with an executable for your computer. I assume that versions should be possible for: VMS, ULTRIX IRIX, SUN. For Mac and PC I do not know.

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