varDB: A pathogen-specific sequence database of protein families involved in antigenic variation

Bioinformatics

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 2564-2565

  Hayes, C Nelson ^a   Diez, Diego ^a   Joannin, Nicolas ^b,c   Honda, Wataru ^a   Kanehisa, Minoru ^a   Wahlgren, Mats ^b,c   Wheelock, Craig E ^a,b   Goto, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; FUNGUS; GENBANK; GENETIC DRIFT; HELMINTH; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTOZOON; SEQUENCE DATABASE; TAXON; VARDB; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIA; DATABASES, GENETIC; DATABASES, PROTEIN; FUNGI; HUMANS; PROTEINS; PROTOZOA; VIRUSES;

FUNGI; PROTOZOA; VERMES;

EID: 54949145799     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn477     Document Type: Article

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