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Current progress of immunoinformatics approach harnessed for cellular- and antibody-dependent vaccine design
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Immunoinformatics plays a pivotal role in vaccine design, immunodiagnostic development, and antibody production. In the past, antibody design and vaccine development depended exclusively on immunological experiments which are relatively expensive and time-consuming. However, recent advances in the field of immunological bioinformatics have provided feasible tools which can be used to lessen the time and cost required for vaccine and antibody development. This approach allows the selection of immunogenic regions from the pathogen genomes. The ideal regions could be developed as potential vaccine candidates to trigger protective immune responses in the hosts. At present, epitope-based vaccines are attractive concepts which have been successfully trailed to develop vaccines which target rapidly mutating pathogens. In this article, we provide an overview of the current progress of immunoinformatics and their applications in the vaccine design, immune system modeling and therapeutics.
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- Authors
- Kazi, A., Chuah, C., Majeed, A. B. A., Leow, C. H., Lim, B. H., & Leow, C. Y.
- Affiliations
- Universiti Sains Malaysia (MY)
- Universiti Teknologi MARA System (MY)
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- Pathogens and Global Health
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
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- 2018-03-12
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- 112
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- 3
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- 123-131
- ISSN
- 2047-7724 (ISSN-L)
- 2047-7732
- PMC
- PMC6056828
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- W2789811841
- Cited by
- 122
- References
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- en
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- Higher Institutions Centre of Excellence Program (311/CIPPM/4401005)
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- The Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education of the Higher Institutions Centre of Excellence Program (311/CIPPM/4401005)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Artificial Immune Systems Applications
- Keywords
- immunoinformatics, vaccine design, antibody design, epitope-based vaccine, immune system modeling, B-cell epitopes
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Epitopes, Humans, Immunity, Cellular, Vaccines, Computational Biology, Drug Discovery, Immunity, Humoral
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