Recent advances in B-cell epitope prediction methods

Immunome Research

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages

  El Manzalawy, Yasser ^a,b   Honavar, Vasant ^b  

^a Al Azhar University   (Egypt)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOINFORMATICS; DATA BASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE EPITOPE DATABASE; IMMUNOINFORMATICS; MACHINE LEARNING; PREDICTION; REVIEW;

EID: 78149293634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17457580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-7580-6-S2-S2     Document Type: Review

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