EpHLA: An innovative and user-friendly software automating the HLAMatchmaker algorithm for antibody analysis

Transplant Immunology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 210-216

  Sousa, Luiz Cláudio Demes da Mata ^a   Filho, Herton Luiz Alves Sales ^a   Von Glehn, Cristina de Queiroz Carrascosa ^b   da Silva, Adalberto Socorro ^a   Neto, Pedro de Alcântara dos Santos ^a   de Castro, José Adail Fonseca ^a   Monte, Semíramis Jamil Hadad do ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antibody; Epitope; HLA; Software

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HLA ANTIBODY; HLA EPITOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DONOR SELECTION; ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DONOR SELECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 80054079502     PISSN: 09663274     EISSN: 18785492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trim.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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