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ReviewOpen biology2013

T-cell epitope vaccine design by immunoinformatics.

Atanas Patronov, Irini Doytchinova

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Review in Open biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 167 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
167citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
10.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

167 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 425 citations in OpenAlex.

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107 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Atanas PatronovDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Irini Doytchinova
Medical University of Sofia · BG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccination is generally considered to be the most effective method of preventing infectious diseases. All vaccinations work by presenting a foreign antigen to the immune system in order to evoke an immune response. The active agent of a vaccine may be intact but inactivated ('attenuated') forms of the causative pathogens (bacteria or viruses), or purified components of the pathogen that have been found to be highly immunogenic. The increased understanding of antigen recognition at molecular level has resulted in the development of rationally designed peptide vaccines. The concept of peptide vaccines is based on identification and chemical synthesis of B-cell and T-cell epitopes which are immunodominant and can induce specific immune responses. The accelerating growth of bioinformatics techniques and applications along with the substantial amount of experimental data has given rise to a new field, called immunoinformatics. Immunoinformatics is a branch of bioinformatics dealing with in silico analysis and modelling of immunological data and problems. Different sequence- and structure-based immunoinformatics methods are reviewed in the paper.

Indexed as

Computational BiologyEpitopes, T-LymphocyteVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, DNAVaccines, InactivatedVaccines, SubunitEpitopes, T-LymphocyteVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, DNAVaccines, InactivatedVaccines, Subunit

Identifiers

PMID23303307
PMCPMC3603454
OpenAlexW2154516306

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