G. Neshich, I. Mazoni, S.R.M. Oliveira, M.E.B. Yamagishi,P.R. Kuser-Falcão, L.C. Borro, D.U. Morita, K.R.R. Souza, G.V. Almeida, D.N. Rodrigues, J.G. Jardine, R.C. Togawa,A.L. Mancini, R.H. Higa, S.A.B. Cruz, F.D. Vieira, E.H. Santos,R.C. Melo, M.M. Santoro
Published December 1, 2006
Genet. Mol. Res. 5 (4): 717-722 (2006)

About the author
G. Neshich, I. Mazoni, S.R.M. Oliveira, M.E.B. Yamagishi,P.R. Kuser-Falcão, L.C. Borro, D.U. Morita, K.R.R. Souza, G.V. Almeida, D.N. Rodrigues, J.G. Jardine, R.C. Togawa,A.L. Mancini, R.H. Higa, S.A.B. Cruz, F.D. Vieira, E.H. Santos,R.C. Melo, M.M. Santoro

Corresponding author
G. Neshich
E-mail: neshich@cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br

ABSTRACT

Star STING is the latest version of the STING suite of programs and corresponding database. We report on five important aspects of this package that have acquired some new characteristics, designed to add key advantages to the whole suite: 1) availability for most popular platforms and browsers, 2) introduction of the STING_DB quality assessment, 3) improvement in algorithms for calculation of three STING parameters, 4) introduction of five new STING modules, and 5) expansion of the existing modules. Star STING is freely accessible at: http:// sms.cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br/SMS/, http://trantor.bioc.columbia.edu/SMS,http://www.es.embnet.org/SMS/, http://gibk26.bse.kyutech.ac.jp/SMS/ and http://www.ar.embnet.org/SMS.

Key words: Protein structure analysis, Per-residue structure descriptors, Topology similarity, Structure summaries