Artificial neural network for prediction of antigenic activity for a major conformational epitope in the hepatitis C virus NS3 protein

Bioinformatics

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 1858-1864

  Lara, James ^a   Wohlhueter, Robert M ^a   Dimitrova, Zoya ^a   Khudyakov, Yury E ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGENS; EPITOPE MAPPING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 50549101469     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn339     Document Type: Article

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