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You can use CAVER but you would have to make all the symmetry mates as one
chain in order to fool it. Still better to just do the experiment I think.
Either it will work or it won't, regardless of what any software tells you.
Just a wild idea : )


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Yarrow Madrona <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Reza,
>
> CAVER is a great tool for this. There is a web version. You can also
> download it to customize and run it in the command line. There is also a
> Pymol CAVER plug in that works very well. I have even used it to analyze MD
> trajectories. You can find it here: http://www.caver.cz/
>
> -Yarrow
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Reza Khayat <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to do some soaking experiments with a relatively large molecule.
>> Can
>> someone suggest a program/method to display the solvent channels of a
>> crystal? We have the crystal structure. I'd like to see if the channels
>> are large
>> enough to allow the molecule to travel to the hypothesized binding site.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Reza
>>
>> Reza Khayat, PhD
>> Assistant Professor
>> The City College of New York
>> Department of Chemistry, MR-1135
>> 160 Convent Avenue
>> New York, NY  10031
>> Tel. (212) 650-6070
>> www.khayatlab.org
>>
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