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In order to facilitate the three-dimensional structure comparison of proteins, software for making comparisons and searching for similarities to protein structures in databases has been developed. The program identifies the residues that share similar positions of both main-chain and side-chain atoms between two proteins. The unique functions of the software also include database processing via Internet- and Web-based servers for different types of users. The developed method and its friendly user interface copes with many of the problems that frequently occur in protein structure comparisons, such as detecting structurally equivalent residues, misalignment caused by coincident match of Cα atoms, circular sequence permutations, tedious repetition of access, maintenance of the most recent database, and inconvenience of user interface. The program is also designed to cooperate with other tools in structural bioinformatics, such as the 3DB Browser software [Prilusky (1998). Protein Data Bank Q. Newslett. 84, 3–4] and the SCOP database [Murzin, Brenner, Hubbard & Chothia (1995). J. Mol. Biol. 247, 536–540], for convenient molecular modelling and protein structure analysis. A similarity ranking score of `structure diversity' is proposed in order to estimate the evolutionary distance between proteins based on the comparisons of their three-dimensional structures. The function of the program has been utilized as a part of an automated program for multiple protein structure alignment. In this paper, the algorithm of the program and results of systematic tests are presented and discussed.

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