Firstly, for each position in the input sequence, MIMOX searches the uploaded PDB structure for matching residues and places them into an array of candidate residues for that position. Two matching modes are available at present. One is strict mode, which means the type of mimotope residue must match the antigen residue exactly. The other is called conservative mode, which means similar residues are also included in the candidate residue array. There are 5 groups of similar residues (L, I, V; T, S; E, D; Q, N; K, R; F, W) in MIMOX, which has been described in previous section.