Evaluation of spatial epitope computational tools based on experimentally-confirmed dataset for protein antigens

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 55, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 2169-2174

  Xu, Xiao Lian ^a,b   Sun, Jing ^b,c   Liu, Qi ^c   Wang, Xiao Jing ^b   Xu, Tian Lei ^b,c   Zhu, Rui Xin ^c   Wu, Di ^b,c   Cao, Zhi Wei ^a,b,c  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI CENTER FOR BIOINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conformational epitope; Discontinuous epitope; Epitope prediction; Independent dataset; Protein antigen

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954521521     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-010-3199-z     Document Type: Article

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