IMR Press / FBE / Volume 4 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.2741/e378

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Immunoinformatics: how in silico methods are re-shaping the investigation of peptide immune specificity

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1 Singapore Immunology Network, 8A Biomedical Grove, No. 04-06 Immunos, Biopolis, Singapore 138648
2 Data Mining Department, Institute for Infocomm Research, 1 Fusionopolis Way, No. 21-01 Connexis South Tower, Singapore 138632
3 Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 8 Medical Drive, Singapore 117597

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

 

Front. Biosci. (Elite Ed) 2012, 4(1), 311–319; https://doi.org/10.2741/e378
Published: 1 January 2012
Abstract

In the past decade, information technology has enabled synergistic advances in key domains of immunological research including the development of diagnostics and vaccines. Computational methods of epitope mapping now play instrumental roles in bench experiments, by facilitating the selection of immunogenic targets and the modeling of downstream cellular responses. In this article, we summarize the latest development and application of immune epitope prediction methods and discuss future directions in this field which could enhance our understanding of immune specificity.

Keywords
Bioinformatics
Immunoinformatics
Immunological Databases
T-cell epitope prediction
B-cell Epitope Prediction
Ig
immunoglobulin
TR: T-cell receptor
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