TY - JOUR
T1 - The design and implementation of the immune epitope database and analysis resource
AU - Peters, Bjoern
AU - Sidney, John
AU - Bourne, Phil
AU - Bui, Huynh-Hoa
AU - Buus, Soeren
AU - Doh, Grace
AU - Fleri, Ward
AU - Kronenberg, Mitch
AU - Kubo, Ralph
AU - Lund, Ole
AU - Nemazee, David
AU - Ponomarenko, Julia V
AU - Sathiamurthy, Muthu
AU - Schoenberger, Stephen P
AU - Stewart, Scott
AU - Surko, Pamela
AU - Way, Scott
AU - Wilson, Steve
AU - Sette, Alessandro
N1 - Keywords: Animals; Databases, Factual; Epitopes; Humans; Immunodominant Epitopes; Internet; Protein Structure, Tertiary
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Epitopes are defined as parts of antigens interacting with receptors of the immune system. Knowledge about their intrinsic structure and how they affect the immune response is required to continue development of techniques that detect, monitor, and fight diseases. Their scientific importance is reflected in the vast amount of epitope-related information gathered, ranging from interactions between epitopes and major histocompatibility complex molecules determined by X-ray crystallography to clinical studies analyzing correlates of protection for epitope based vaccines. Our goal is to provide a central resource capable of capturing this information, allowing users to access and connect realms of knowledge that are currently separated and difficult to access. Here, we portray a new initiative, "The Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource." We describe how we plan to capture, structure, and store this information, what query interfaces we will make available to the public, and what additional predictive and analytical tools we will provide.
AB - Epitopes are defined as parts of antigens interacting with receptors of the immune system. Knowledge about their intrinsic structure and how they affect the immune response is required to continue development of techniques that detect, monitor, and fight diseases. Their scientific importance is reflected in the vast amount of epitope-related information gathered, ranging from interactions between epitopes and major histocompatibility complex molecules determined by X-ray crystallography to clinical studies analyzing correlates of protection for epitope based vaccines. Our goal is to provide a central resource capable of capturing this information, allowing users to access and connect realms of knowledge that are currently separated and difficult to access. Here, we portray a new initiative, "The Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource." We describe how we plan to capture, structure, and store this information, what query interfaces we will make available to the public, and what additional predictive and analytical tools we will provide.
U2 - 10.1007/s00251-005-0803-5
DO - 10.1007/s00251-005-0803-5
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 15895191
SN - 0093-7711
VL - 57
SP - 326
EP - 336
JO - Immunogenetics
JF - Immunogenetics
IS - 5
ER -