Epitope discovery with phylogenetic hidden markov models

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1212-1220

  Lacerda, Miguel ^a   Scheffler, Konrad ^b   Seoighe, Cathal ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c CENTRE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Epitopes; Immune mediated evolution; Phylogenetic hidden Markov model

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; EPITOPE; HLA ANTIGEN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALLELES; BAYES THEOREM; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HIV CORE PROTEIN P24; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 77951585502     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq008     Document Type: Article

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