Computational analysis of adaptive antigenic mutations of the human influenza hemagglutinin for vaccine strain selection

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 81-98

  Rickert, Jared D ^a   Herpy, Todd A ^a   Zhong, Haizhen ^a   Lu, Guoqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic mutations; HA; Hemagglutinin; Influenza virus; Positive selection; Structure analysis

Indexed keywords

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 84859037312     PISSN: 17445485     EISSN: 17445493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2012.045978     Document Type: Article

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