Evolutionary non-linear modelling for selecting vaccines against antigenically variable viruses
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Evolutionary non-linear modelling for selecting vaccines against antigenically variable viruses
MOTIVATION In vitro and in vivo selection of vaccines is time consuming, expensive and the selected vaccines may not be able to provide protection against broad-spectrum viruses because of emerging antigenically novel disease strains. A powerful computational model that incorporates these protein/DNA or RNA level fluctuations can effectively predict antigenically variant strains, and can minimi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bioinformatics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1367-4803,1460-2059
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu768