Maximum Allowed Solvent Accessibilites of Residues in Proteins
Figure 4
Difference between theoretically and empirically determined maximum ASA values for alanine, across by
bins.
As the amount of data per bin increases, the difference between theoretical and empirical maximum ASA approaches zero, demonstrating that our two methods converged with increasing amounts of data. Furthermore, the difference between values is frequently close to zero, even when little data is available for a bin. This observation indicates that our theoretically derived maximum ASA values provide a tight bound on the empirically observed ones.