Development of an epitope conservancy analysis tool to facilitate the design of epitope-based diagnostics and vaccines

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In an epitope-based vaccine setting, the use of conserved epitopes would be expected to provide broader protection across multiple strains, or even species, than epitopes derived from highly variable genome regions. Conversely, in a...

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Main Authors: Fusseder Nicolas, Li Wei, Sidney John, Bui Huynh-Hoa, Sette Alessandro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-09-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/361