Tertiary structure-based prediction of conformational B-cell epitopes through B factors

Bioinformatics

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Ren, Jing ^a   Liu, Qian ^a   Ellis, John ^a   Li, Jinyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; GP120 PROTEIN, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84902439233     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu281     Document Type: Article

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