EpicCapo: Epitope prediction using combined information of amino acid pairwise contact potentials and HLA-peptide contact site information

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Saethang, Thammakorn ^a   Hirose, Osamu ^a   Kimkong, Ingorn ^b   Tran, Vu A ^a   Dang, Xuan T ^a   Nguyen, Lan Anh T ^a   Le, Tu Kien T ^a   Kubo, Mamoru ^a   Yamada, Yoichi ^a   Satou, Kenji ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATASETS; BINDING POTENTIAL; COMBINED INFORMATIONS; CONTACT POTENTIAL; CONTACT SITES; CTL EPITOPE; EPITOPE PREDICTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTERPRETABILITY; NONLINEAR TECHNIQUES; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; SYNTHETIC VACCINES;

AMINO ACIDS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PEPTIDES; VACCINES;

EPITOPES;

AMINO ACID; EPITOPE; HLA ANTIGEN; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACIDS; EPITOPES; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; PROTEIN BINDING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84869862556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-313     Document Type: Article

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