AllerTool: A web server for predicting allergenicity and allergic cross-reactivity in proteins

Bioinformatics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 504-506

  Zhang, Zong Hong ^a   Koh, Judice L Y ^a   Zhang, Guang Lan ^a   Choo, Khar Heng ^a   Tammi, Martti T ^b   Tong, Joo Chuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; PROTEIN;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGIC REACTION; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS REACTION; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD CHAIN; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; INTERNET; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 33847328275     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl621     Document Type: Article

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