Bioinformatics for characterisation of allergens, allergenicity and allergic crossreactivity

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 225-228

  Brusic, Vladimir ^a,b   Petrovsky, Nikolai ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ALGORITHM; ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS REACTION; DATA BASE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PREDICTION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0038401183     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4906(03)00075-9     Document Type: Review

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