SurfStamp: 3D Printer Compatible Molecular Surface Representation

Abstract

SurfStamp is an application that is used to generate textures for surface models of proteins. The textures contain information about surface residues and the information is drawn directly on the 3D object of the models. This approach is more intuitive than the labeling functions that most three-dimensional (3D) structure viewers use to show residue information. Therefore, the use of this application enables researchers, readers, or audiences to easily determine which residues are contributing the surface they are focusing on. AvailabilityThe application is provided under the open-source Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). The application and source code are available from https://github.com/yamule/SurfStamp-public/releases. The application is also available as a plugin for the recent versions of PyMOL (Schrodinger, 2015, https://github.com/schrodinger/pymol-open-source) from https://github.com/yamule/SurfStamp-pymol-plugin.