High-throughput prediction of protein antigenicity using protein microarray data

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 2936-2943

  Magnan, Christophe N ^a   Zeller, Michael ^a   Kayala, Matthew A ^a   Vigil, Adam ^a   Randall, Arlo ^a   Felgner, Philip L ^a   Baldi, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANTIGENS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; PROTEINS; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 78449302373     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq551     Document Type: Article

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