MHCcluster, a method for functional clustering of MHC molecules

Immunogenetics

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 655-665

  Thomsen, Martin ^a   Lundegaard, Claus ^a,c   Buus, Søren ^d   Lund, Ole ^a   Nielsen, Morten ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

^c ALK ABELLÓ   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Binding motif; Functional clustering; HLA; MHC; MHC specificity; Supertypes

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHIMPANZEE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; HLA SYSTEM; IMMUNOGENETICS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INTERNET; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROTEIN BINDING; SOFTWARE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

PAN;

EID: 84881611553     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: 14321211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-013-0714-9     Document Type: Article

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