Getting started in computational immunology

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Kleinstein, Steven H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; COMPUTATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY; EXPERIMENTATION; GERMINAL CENTER; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY CELL; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PLASMA CELL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHORT SURVEY; VIROLOGY; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; BIOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 50949102367     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000128     Document Type: Short Survey

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