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Putting immunoinformatics to the test

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A consensus epitope prediction approach identifies the epitopes responsible for 95% of the murine T-cell response to vaccinia virus.

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Figure 1: The traditional approach to epitope mapping the vaccinia genome would involve synthesizing almost 176,000 overlapping 8-mer, 9-mer and 10-mer peptides (gray).

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    Leonard Moise & Anne S De Groot

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