Antibody-specified B-cell epitope prediction in line with the principle of context-awareness

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1483-1494

  Zhao, Liang ^a   Wong, Limsoon ^b   Li, Jinyan ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

antibody; antigen.; context dependence; Epitope prediction

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY-ANTIGEN; BINARY CLASSIFICATION; CONTEXT DEPENDENCES; CONTEXT-AWARENESS; COOPERATIVITY; DATA SETS; EPITOPE PREDICTION; IN-LINE; MARKOV PROPERTY; ONE-DIMENSION; PARATOPE; PREDICTION PROBLEM; STRUCTURE-BASED; TWO-DIMENSION;

ANTIGENS; FORECASTING;

ANTIBODIES;

ANTIBODY; EPITOPE;

ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; EPITOPE MAPPING; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE;

ANTIBODIES; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; BINDING SITES; BINDING SITES, ANTIBODY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 80052890732     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2011.49     Document Type: Article

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