Allerdictor: Fast allergen prediction using text classification techniques

Bioinformatics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1120-1128

  Dang, Ha X ^a   Lawrence, Christopher B ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGY; HUMAN; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

EID: 84898884703     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu004     Document Type: Article

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