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The Star STING server: a multiplatform environment for protein structure analysis
G. Neshich1, I. Mazoni1, S.R.M. Oliveira1, M.E.B. Yamagishi1, P.R. Kuser-Falcão1,
L.C. Borro1, D.U. Morita1, K.R.R. Souza1, G.V. Almeida1, D.N. Rodrigues1, J.G. Jardine1,
R.C. Togawa2, A.L. Mancini1, R.H. Higa1, S.A.B. Cruz1, F.D. Vieira1, E.H. Santos1,
R.C. Melo3,4 and M.M. Santoro4
1Núcleo de Bioinformática Estrutural, Embrapa Informática Agropecuária, Campinas, SP, Brasil
2Laboratório de Bioinformática, Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasília, DF, Brasil
3Departamento de Ciência da Computação, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil
4Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil
Corresponding author: G. Neshich
E-mail: [email protected]
Genet. Mol. Res. 5 (4): 717-722 (2006)
Received April 25, 2006
Accepted September 26, 2006
Published December 1, 2006

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

 

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