B-Pred, a structure based B-cell epitopes prediction server

Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-21

  Giacò, Luciano ^a   Amicosante, Massimo ^a   Fraziano, Maurizio ^a   Gherardini, Pier Federico ^a   Ausiello, Gabriele ^a   Helmer Citterich, Manuela ^a   Colizzi, Vittorio ^a   Cabibbo, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

B cell epitopes; Bioinformatics; Epitope prediction; Immunoinformatics; Web server

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878890474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11786949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/AABC.S30620     Document Type: Article

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