[gmx-users] slightly off topic: Hole program

[Xavier Periole]

mark wrote:

> Tieleman et al. (1)  used Oliver Smart's 'HOLE' program (2) to 
> evaluate the channel size of transmembrane pores. We would like to do 
> something similar. However it seems that Smart has moved, and after 
> several weeks, we have gotten no response from emails and webpage 
> applications. Does anyone know how to obtain this program or its 
> equivalent?
>
> thanks
>
> M. Vaughn
>
>
> (1) Tieleman, D. P., B. Hess, and M. S. P. Sansom. 2002. Analysis and 
> Evaluation of Channel Models: Simulations of Alamethicin. Biophys. J. 
> 83:2393-2407
>
> (2) O,S. Smart, J.G. Neduvelila, X. Wang, B. A. Wallacea and M. S. P. 
> 1996 Sansom.HOLE: A Program for the Analysis of the Pore Dimensions of 
> Ion Channel Structural Models  J. Mol. Graphics. 14:354-360.

You should check the paper:
J.D. Faraldo-Gomez et al., Eur. Biophys. J. (2002) 31, 217-227

XAvier

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