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Pep-3D-Search: a method for B-cell epitope prediction based on mimotope analysis

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Pep-3D-Search: a method for B-cell epitope prediction based on mimotope analysis
Background: The prediction of conformational B-cell epitopes is one of the most important goals in immunoinformatics. The solution to this problem, even if approximate, would help in designing experiments to precisely map the residues of interaction between an antigen and an antibody. Consequently, this area of research has received considerable attention from immunologists, structural biologists and computational biologists. Phage-displayed random peptide libraries are powerful tools used to obtain mimotopes that are selected by binding to a given monoclonal antibody (mAb) in a similar way to the native epitope. These mimotopes can be considered as functional epitope mimics. Mimotope analysis based methods can predict not only linear but also conformational epitopes and this has been the focus of much research in recent years. Though some algorithms based on mimotope analysis have been proposed, the precise localization of the interaction site mimicked by the mimotopes is still a cha...
Yanxin Huang, Yongli Bao, Shu Yan Guo, Yan Wang, C
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Type Journal
Year 2008
Where BMCBI
Authors Yanxin Huang, Yongli Bao, Shu Yan Guo, Yan Wang, Chunguang Zhou, Yuxin Li
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