Antibody Databases and Tools: The IMGT® Experience

Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies: From Bench to Clinic

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 91-114

  Lefranc, Marie Paule ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

Antibody databases and tools IMGTR experience; IMGTR databases, tools, and web resources for antibody structural analysis; IMGTR genomic, genetic, and structural approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958062905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470485408.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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