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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2017

The Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource in Epitope Discovery and Synthetic Vaccine Design.

Ward Fleri, Sinu Paul, Sandeep Kumar Dhanda, Swapnil Mahajan, Xiaojun Xu, Bjoern Peters, Alessandro Sette

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 287 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

287 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Ward FleriDivision of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology , La Jolla, CA , USA.
Sinu PaulDivision of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology , La Jolla, CA , USA.
Sandeep Kumar DhandaDivision of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology , La Jolla, CA , USA.
Swapnil MahajanDivision of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology , La Jolla, CA , USA.
Xiaojun XuDivision of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology , La Jolla, CA , USA.
Bjoern PetersDivision of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology , La Jolla, CA , USA.
Alessandro SetteDivision of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology , La Jolla, CA , USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The task of epitope discovery and vaccine design is increasingly reliant on bioinformatics analytic tools and access to depositories of curated data relevant to immune reactions and specific pathogens. The Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource (IEDB) was indeed created to assist biomedical researchers in the development of new vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics. The Analysis Resource is freely available to all researchers and provides access to a variety of epitope analysis and prediction tools. The tools include validated and benchmarked methods to predict MHC class I and class II binding. The predictions from these tools can be combined with tools predicting antigen processing, TCR recognition, and B cell epitope prediction. In addition, the resource contains a variety of secondary analysis tools that allow the researcher to calculate epitope conservation, population coverage, and other relevant analytic variables. The researcher involved in vaccine design and epitope discovery will also be interested in accessing experimental published data, relevant to the specific indication of interest. The database component of the IEDB contains a vast amount of experimentally derived epitope data that can be queried through a flexible user interface. The IEDB is linked to other pathogen-specific and immunological database resources.

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antibodyepitopeimmunogenicityMHC class IMHC class IIpredictionT cellvaccines

Identifiers

PMID28352270
PMCPMC5348633

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