Immune system simulation online
Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article – Annual report year: 2011
MOTIVATION: The recognition of antigenic peptides is a major event of an immune response. In current mesoscopic-scale simulators of the immune system, this crucial step has been modeled in a very approximated way. RESULTS: We have equipped an agent-based model of the immune system with immuno-informatics methods to allow the simulation of the cardinal events of the antigenic recognition, going from single peptides to whole proteomes. The recognition process accounts for B cell-epitopes prediction through Parker-scale affinity estimation, class I and II HLA peptide prediction and binding through position-specific scoring matrices based on information from known HLA epitopes prediction tools, and TCR binding to HLA–peptide complex calculated as the averaged sum of a residue–residue contact potential. These steps are executed for all lymphocytes agents encountering the antigen in a wide-reaching Monte Carlo simulation. AVAILABILITY: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/C-ImmSim-10.1/ CONTACT: f.castiglione@iac.cnr.it
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Bioinformatics |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Journal number | 14 |
| Pages | 2013-2014 |
| ISSN | 1367-4803 |
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| State | Published |
| Citations | Web of Science® Times Cited: 2 |
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