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ArticleJournal of biomedicine & biotechnology2010

Vaxign: the first web-based vaccine design program for reverse vaccinology and applications for vaccine development.

Yongqun He, Zuoshuang Xiang, Harry L T Mobley

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Article in Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 173 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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173citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

173 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 357 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yongqun HeUnit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. yongqunh@med.umich.edu
Zuoshuang Xiang
Harry L T Mobley
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS OF E COLI UTIR01AI043363 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MOBLEY, HARRY L. · 1998 to 2012
$3.4M
Ontology-based Information Network to Support Vaccine ResearchR01AI081062 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI HE, YONGQUN · 2009 to 2012
$1.1M
Vaccine to prevent E. coli urinary tract infectionR56AI043363 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MOBLEY, HARRY L. · 2014 to 2014
$351k
NIAID NIH HHS AI081062NIAID NIH HHS AI43363NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI043363NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI081062NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI043363
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaxign is the first web-based vaccine design system that predicts vaccine targets based on genome sequences using the strategy of reverse vaccinology. Predicted features in the Vaxign pipeline include protein subcellular location, transmembrane helices, adhesin probability, conservation to human and/or mouse proteins, sequence exclusion from genome(s) of nonpathogenic strain(s), and epitope binding to MHC class I and class II. The precomputed Vaxign database contains prediction of vaccine targets for >70 genomes. Vaxign also performs dynamic vaccine target prediction based on input sequences. To demonstrate the utility of this program, the vaccine candidates against uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) were predicted using Vaxign and compared with various experimental studies. Our results indicate that Vaxign is an accurate and efficient vaccine design program.

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InternetSoftwareAlgorithmsBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBiotechnologyEpitopesGenome, BacterialHistocompatibility Antigens Class IReproducibility of ResultsROC CurveSequence Analysis, DNAUropathogenic Escherichia coliUser-Computer InterfaceVaccinesBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsEpitopesHistocompatibility Antigens Class IVaccines

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PMID20671958
PMCPMC2910479
OpenAlexW2005095482

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