URL: http://bioinformatics.uams.edu/mirror/bcipep/
What you can do: Search for information on B-cell epitopes from a wide range of pathogens.
Highlights:
  • Bcipep is a database of experimentally determined linear B-cell epitopes of varying immunogenicity collected from literature and other publicly available databases.
  • The current version of Bcipep database contains 3031 entries that include 763 immunodominant, 1797 immunogenic and 471 null-immunogenic epitopes.
  • It covers a wide range of pathogenic organisms like viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi.
  • The database provides a set of tools for the analysis and extraction of data that includes keyword search, peptide mapping and BLAST search.
  • It also provides hyperlinks to various databases such as GenBank, PDB, SWISS-PROT and MHCBN.
Keywords:
  • B-Lymphocytes
  • B-cell epitopes
  • immunodominant epitopes
  • immunogenic epitopes
  • null-immunogenic epitopes
  • peptide-based vaccine design
Literature and Tutorials: PubMed Link: BCIpep -- A database of B-cell epitopes

This record last updated: 07-07-2006

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