STAMP has been used in numerous published studies.
Several novel similarities uncovered by STAMP have appeared
in the literature: the similarity between the SH2 domain
and domain II of E. coli biotin operon protein [9]; the
similarity between HIV matrix protein p17 and Interferon
gamma [16] and numerous others [12,21,22].
STAMP has also aided several other investigations
into protein structure. STAMP alignments have been used to
determine the best accuracy of secondary structure prediction
from multiple sequence alignment [10]. It has been used to
investigate the conservation of various protein structural features
across structural similar (but apparently non-homologous) proteins
[11,13] and has been used for several investigations into protein domain
structure [12,23,24].
STAMP has also proved extremely useful when assessing the results of
protein structure prediction by fold recognition
[25,26,27].
Most recently, STAMP has been used to investigate various aspects of protein function
and evolution, in addition to doing large scale superimpositions of the entire
protein database according to SCOP [13,14], and problems
associated with alignments for protein comparative modelling
[28].