BepiPred-2.0: Improving sequence-based B-cell epitope prediction using conformational epitopes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 45, Issue W1, 2017, Pages W24-W29

  Jespersen, Martin Closter ^a   Peters, Bjoern ^b   Nielsen, Morten ^a,c   Marcatili, Paolo ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; LYSOZYME;

ALGORITHM; ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BENCHMARKING; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WEB BROWSER; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTERNET; MOLECULAR MODEL; SOFTWARE;

EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; INTERNET; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MURAMIDASE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 85021067063     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx346     Document Type: Article

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