Prediction of protein allergenicity using local description of amino acid sequence

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 6072-6078

  Tong, Joo Chuan ^a   Tammi, Martti T ^b,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allergens; Allergy Assessment; Bioinformatics; Prediction; Review; Support Vector Machine

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; EPITOPE; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

ALGORITHMS; ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPITOPES; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTEINS;

EID: 52049102422     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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