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MUSTANG-MR Structural Sieving Server: Applications in Protein Structural Analysis and Crystallography 1,2. 3,4. 3 3 5 Arun S. Konagurthu , Cyril F. Reboul , Jason W. Schmidberger , James A. Irving , Arthur M. Lesk , 1,2 3,4 3 Peter J. Stuckey , James C. Whisstock , Ashley M. Buckle * 1 NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory at The University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2 Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, 4 ARC Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, 5 The Huck Institute for Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America Abstract Background: A central tenet of structural biology is that related proteins of common function share structural similarity. This has key practical consequences for the derivation and analysis of protein structures, and is exploited by the process of ‘‘molecular sieving’’ whereby a common core is progressively distilled from a comparison of two or more protein structures. This paper reports a novel web server for ‘‘sieving’’ of protein structures, based on the multiple structural alignment program MUSTANG. Methodology/Principal Findings: ‘‘Sieved’’ models are generated from MUST