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TAPPred Prediction of TAP-Binding Peptides in Antigens
Abstract
The transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP) plays a crucial role in the transport of the peptide fragments of the proteolysed antigenic or self-altered proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum where the association between these peptides and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules takes place. Therefore, prediction of TAP-binding peptides is highly helpful in identifying the MHC class I-restricted T-cell epitopes and hence in the subunit vaccine designing. In this chapter, we describe a support vector machine (SVM)-based method TAPPred that allows users to predict TAP-binding affinity of peptides over web. The server allows user to predict TAP binders using a simple SVM model or cascade SVM model. The server also allows user to customize the display/output. It is freely available for academicians and noncommercial organization at the address http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/tappred.
Affiliation(s): (3) Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
(4) UAMS, BRCII, Little Rock, AR
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology  |  Volume: 409  |  Pub. Date: Jun-21-2007  |  Page Range: 381-386  |  DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-118-9_28
Subject:  Immunology
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