Benchmarking B cell epitope prediction: underperformance of existing methods.

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Published in Protein Sci on December 02, 2004

Authors

Martin J Blythe1, Darren R Flower

Author Affiliations

1: Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research, High Street, Compton, Berkshire, RG20 7NN, UK. martin.blythe@jenner.ac.uk

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