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The Star STING server: a multiplatform environment for protein structure analysis

Author(s): G. Neshich, I. Mazoni, S.R.M. Oliveira, M.E.B. Yamagishi, P.R. Kuser-Falc�£o, 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 and M.M. Santoro

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.