Benchmarking B cell epitope prediction: Underperformance of existing methods

Protein Science

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 246-248

  Blythe, Martin J ^a   Flower, Darren R ^a  

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

Author keywords

Active site binding site epitope mapping; Epitope prediction; Immunological methods; Proteins of the immune system

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING SITE; EPITOPE MAPPING; IMMUNE SYSTEM; PARAMETER; PERFORMANCE; POLYCLONAL ACTIVATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; DATABASES; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 11144246404     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.041059505     Document Type: Article

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