Enhancing in silico protein-based vaccine discovery for eukaryotic pathogens using predicted peptide-MHC binding and peptide conservation scores.

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Published in PLoS One on December 29, 2014

Authors

Stephen J Goodswen1, Paul J Kennedy2, John T Ellis1

Author Affiliations

1: School of Medical and Molecular Sciences, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Ultimo, NSW, Australia.
2: School of Software, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology and the Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Ultimo, NSW, Australia.

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