Abstract
Vaccinology is a combinatorial science which studies the diversity of pathogens and the human immune system, and formulations that can modulate immune responses and prevent or cure disease. Huge amounts of data are produced by genomics and proteomics projects and large-scale screening of pathogen-host and antigen-host interactions. Current developments in computational vaccinology mainly support the analysis of antigen processing and presentation and the characterization of targets of immune response. Future development will also include systemic models of vaccine responses. Immunomics, the large-scale screening of immune processes which includes powerful immunoinformatic tools, offers great promise for future translation of basic immunology research advances into successful vaccines.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 407-417 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Expert Review of Vaccines |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2005 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Computational vaccinology
- Immunoinformatics
- Immunologic databases
- Immunomics
- T-cell epitope prediction
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Immunology
- Molecular Medicine
- Pharmacology
- Drug Discovery