Diagnostic Peptide Discovery: Prioritization of Pathogen Diagnostic Markers Using Multiple Features

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Carmona, Santiago J ^a   Sartor, Paula A ^b   Leguizamón, María S ^a,b   Campetella, Oscar E ^a   Agüero, Fernán ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CROSS REACTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; SCREENING TEST; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; AREA UNDER CURVE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; GENOME; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84871310290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050748     Document Type: Article

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