Predicting linear B-cell epitopes by using sequence-derived structural and physicochemical features

International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 557-569

  Zhang, Wen ^a   Liu, Juan ^a   Zhao, Meng ^a   Li, Qingjiao ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Linear B cell epitopes; Sequence derived structural and physicochemical features; Support vector machine; SVM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867094249     PISSN: 17485673     EISSN: 17485681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJDMB.2012.049298     Document Type: Article

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