Determinants of antigenicity and specificity in immune response for protein sequences

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wang, Yulong ^a   Wu, Wenjun ^b   Negre, Nicolas N ^c   White, Kevin P ^c   Li, Cheng ^a   Shah, Parantu K ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL METHODS; EPITOPE PREDICTIONS; EVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATIONS; EVOLUTIONARY INFORMATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURES; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; SOLVENT ACCESSIBILITY;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EPITOPES; FLUORESCENCE; FORECASTING; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PEPTIDES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ANTIBODIES;

ANTIGEN; EPITOPE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS;

EID: 79959282758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-251     Document Type: Article

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