AllerTOP - a server for in silico prediction of allergens

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL6, 2013, Pages

  Dimitrov, Ivan ^a   Flower, Darren R ^b   Doytchinova, Irini ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; K NEAREST NEIGHBOURS (K-NN); LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PROTEIN SEQUENCES; SEQUENCE SIMILARITY;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOINFORMATICS; DECISION TREES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PROTEINS;

ALLERGENS;

ALLERGEN; PROTEIN; TOXIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN DATABASE;

ALGORITHMS; ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; PROTEINS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84884187982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-S6-S4     Document Type: Article

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