B-cell epitope prediction through a graph model

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-12

  Zhao, Liang ^a   Wong, Limsoon ^b   Lu, Lanyuan ^c   Hoi, Steven C H ^a   Li, Jinyan ^d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENS; BIG DATA; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

ANTIBODY-ANTIGEN; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; EPITOPE PREDICTIONS; GRAPHICAL MODEL; PLANAR PATCH; POOR PERFORMANCE; STATE OF THE ART; UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING;

EPITOPES;

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; EPITOPE;

ALGORITHM; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPITOPE MAPPING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGENS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGY; MARKOV CHAINS; METHODS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84979809395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-S17-S20     Document Type: Article

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