Computational prediction of conformational B-cell epitopes from antigen primary structures by ensemble learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Wen ^a   Niu, Yanqing ^b   Xiong, Yi ^a   Zhao, Meng ^a   Yu, Rongwei ^a,c   Liu, Juan ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; EPITOPE;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLIENT SERVER APPLICATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERNET; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84865183573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043575     Document Type: Article

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