02526nam a2200313 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000160006024501550007626001760023130000120040750001770041952013270059665000160192365000190193965000160195865300200197465300160199470000210201070000240203170000260205570000150208170000220209670000180211870000220213670000190215870000190217770000160219610087382024-02-27       2005    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aNESHICH, G.  aWhat makes the active site amino acids so different from the othersbdefining the structural descriptors specific for activity.h[electronic resource]  aIn: X-MEETING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AB3C, 1., 2005, Caxambu. [Proceedings...]. [S.l.]: Associação Brasileira de Bioinformática e Biologia Computacionalc2005  ap. 149.  aNa publicação: Paula Kuser, Michel Yamagishi, Stanley Oliveira, Edgard Santos, Fabio Vieira, Sergio Cruz, Adauto Mancini, Roberto Higa. X-meeting 2005. Presented Posters.  aWe describe in this paper some of the new features available in Diamond STING Suite. Also, we emphasize here the main difference which continues to work in favor of the STING and separates it from the other servers belonging to this category also available on the Internet - the capability to present the largest number of descriptors for the sequence, structure, function, stability and binding in a concise and visually compelling way, as well as the capability to select/focus for/at those residues which satisfy a user defined parameter/descriptor values. This feature allows that some very interesting and important questions can be answered, such as: Is there a set of parameters (protein structure descriptors) which can define UNIQUELY an amino acid ensemble coinciding with the active site of a given protein or coinciding with amino acids identified experimentally as crucial for the folding / stability. We present here an example where by combining selected ranges for a number of structure parameters we have obtained at the end of a Select procedure an ensemble of which coincides with the critical residues identified experimentally as the activity essential residues for number of protein families. The Select procedure used only few parameters and their numerical values/regions to achieve this objective.  aAmino acids  aBioinformatics  aAminoácido  aBioinformática  aDescritores1 aFALCAO, P. R. K.1 aYAMAGISHI, M. E. B.1 aOLIVEIRA, S. R. de M.1 aMAZONI, I.1 aSANTOS, E. H. dos1 aVIEIRA, F. D.1 aCRUZ, S. A. B. da1 aMANCINI, A. L.1 aJARDINE, J. G.1 aHIGA, R. H.