BEST: Improved prediction of B-cell epitopes from antigen sequences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Gao, Jianzhao ^a   Faraggi, Eshel ^b,c   Zhou, Yaoqi ^b,c   Ruan, Jishou ^a   Kurgan, Lukasz ^d  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE;

ABCPRED; ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; B CELL EPITOPE PREDICTION USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE TOOL; BAYESB; BCPRED; CBTOPE; COBEPRO; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTIGENS; AREA UNDER CURVE; EPITOPES; HUMANS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84862988432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040104     Document Type: Article

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