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ArticleImmunome research2010

Recent advances in B-cell epitope prediction methods.

Yasser El-Manzalawy, Vasant Honavar

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Article in Immunome research, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers.

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Yasser El-ManzalawyDepartment of Systems and Computer Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Egypt. yasser@iastate.edu.
Vasant Honavar

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identification of epitopes that invoke strong responses from B-cells is one of the key steps in designing effective vaccines against pathogens. Because experimental determination of epitopes is expensive in terms of cost, time, and effort involved, there is an urgent need for computational methods for reliable identification of B-cell epitopes. Although several computational tools for predicting B-cell epitopes have become available in recent years, the predictive performance of existing tools remains far from ideal. We review recent advances in computational methods for B-cell epitope prediction, identify some gaps in the current state of the art, and outline some promising directions for improving the reliability of such methods.

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PMCPMC2981878

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