AllergenFP: Allergenicity prediction by descriptor fingerprints

Bioinformatics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 846-851

  Dimitrov, Ivan ^a   Naneva, Lyudmila ^b   Doytchinova, Irini ^a   Bangov, Ivan ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b SHUMEN UNIVERSITY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DERMATOGLYPHICS; IMMUNOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DERMATOGLYPHICS; PROTEINS;

EID: 84897585298     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt619     Document Type: Article

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