AllergenOnline: A peer-reviewed, curated allergen database to assess novel food proteins for potential cross-reactivity

Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1183-1198

  Goodman, Richard E ^a   Ebisawa, Motohiro ^b   Ferreira, Fatima ^c   Sampson, Hugh A ^d   van Ree, Ronald ^e   Vieths, Stefan ^f   Baumert, Joseph L ^a   Bohle, Barbara ^g   Lalithambika, Sreedevi ^a   Wise, John ^a   Taylor, Steve L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b SAGAMIHARA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Allergens; Bioinformatics; Food allergy; Genetically modified; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CROSS REACTION; EUROPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOOD ALLERGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INTERNET; PEER REVIEW; PROTEIN INTAKE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UNITED STATES;

ALLERGENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CROSS REACTIONS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIETARY PROTEINS; EUROPE; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; INTERNET; PEER REVIEW; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959465378     PISSN: 16134125     EISSN: 16134133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201500769     Document Type: Article

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