Databases and data mining for computational vaccinology

Current Opinion in Drug Discovery and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 396-400

  Flower, Darren R ^a  

^a EDWARD JENNER INST FOR VACC RES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational vaccinology; Data mining; Databases; Immunoinformatics

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

BIOINFORMATICS; CALCULATION; DATA BASE; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG MANUFACTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; REVIEW; VACCINATION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG DESIGN; VACCINES;

EID: 0038796566     PISSN: 13676733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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