Bioinformatic and Statistical Analysis of Adaptive Immune Repertoires

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 738-749

  Greiff, Victor ^a   Miho, Enkelejda ^a   Menzel, Ulrike ^a   Reddy, Sai T ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBODY ENGINEERING; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS;

EID: 84946749298     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: 14714981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2015.09.006     Document Type: Review

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