Conformational B-Cell Epitope Prediction on Antigen Protein Structures: A Review of Current Algorithms and Comparison with Common Binding Site Prediction Methods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Yao, Bo ^a   Zheng, Dandan ^b   Liang, Shide ^c   Zhang, Chi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE;

ALGORITHM; ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PREDICTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIGENS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84876426871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062249     Document Type: Article

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