From the dropdown menu Scripts > Structure Editing, there is a script called Find Salt Bridges.
This creates Distance Monitor for pairs of charged atoms that are within 4 Angtroms of each other. The distances between the pairs are displayed in teh molecule window. However, the distance monitor doesn't list what the amino acid residues are that contribute to these pairs. Yes, I can go to the molecule and select each of the amino acids to identify them. But in one of my proteins there is over 100 potential salt bridges.
I haven't done any Perl scripting so I'm not sure how easy it would be to modify the script to output the amino acids that form the pairs. I was hoping that maybe someone had already done something similar, however a search of the scripts and forum for "salt bridge" didn't bring up any hits.
Does anyone have a solution to this?
Thanks,
Trevor Lewis