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T-cell epitope predictor?

Tom Thatcher ttha at uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Fri May 31 15:43:17 EST 1996


In <31AEDF38.5DEB at biomira.com> Fred Jacobs <f_jacobs at biomira.com> writes:

>I'm looking for some software or 'net resources that can be used to 
>predict human T-cell epitope sequences from peptides or proteins. 
>There is a site at Brown University
>(http://www.brown.edu/Research/TB-HIV_lab/EpiRequisition.html) which
>will do the search for you when they have time. My understanding is
>that they are still building their site/software. Are ther any other
>sites or available software packages?

WEHI has a database of T cell peptides (actually, I think there are 3
databases: all described T cell peptides; consensus epitopes; and
references).  You can get it by ftp or web from somewhere in 
wehi.edu.au.

If you have a specific MHC in mind, you can look up the consensus sequence
for it.


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