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Computational Peptide Vaccinology

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Computational Peptidology

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1268))

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Immunoinformatics focuses on modeling immune responses for better understanding of the immune system and in many cases for proposing agents able to modify the immune system. The most classical of these agents are vaccines derived from living organisms such as smallpox or polio. More modern vaccines comprise recombinant proteins, protein domains, and in some cases peptides. Generating a vaccine from peptides however requires technologies and concepts very different from classical vaccinology. Immunoinformatics therefore provides the computational tools to propose peptides suitable for formulation into vaccines. This chapter introduces the essential biological concepts affecting design and efficacy of peptide vaccines and discusses current methods and workflows applied to design successful peptide vaccines using computers.

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Söllner, J. (2015). Computational Peptide Vaccinology. In: Zhou, P., Huang, J. (eds) Computational Peptidology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1268. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2285-7_13

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