Bioinformatics for Immunomics: Immunomics Reviews - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1461424852 ISBN 13 : 9781461424857

Editeur : Springer, 2012

Synopsis

Like many words, the term “immunomics” equates to different ideas contingent on context. For a brief span, immunomics meant the study of the Immunome, of which there were, in turn, several different definitions. A now largely defunct meaning rendered the Immunome as the set of antigenic peptides or immunogenic proteins within a single microorganism – be that virus, bacteria, fungus, or parasite – or microbial population, or antigenic or allergenic proteins and peptides derived from the environment as a whole, containing also proteins from eukaryotic sources. However, times have changed and the meaning of immunomics has also changed. Other newer definitions of the Immunome have come to focus on the plethora of immunological receptors and accessory molecules that comprise the host immune arsenal. Today, Immunomics or immunogenomics is now most often used as a synonym for high-throughput genome-based immunology. This is the study of aspects of the immune system using high-throughput techniques within a conc- tual landscape borne of both clinical and biophysical thinking.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This fourth volume of a series is dedicated to advances in immunomics. The focus is on systemic and integrative approaches in basic and clinical immunology, immunoinformatics, and immunologically relevant instrumentation and high-throughput screening methods.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1461424852
• ISBN 13: 9781461424857
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Éditeur: Flower Darren D.R., Davies Matthew, Ranganathan Shoba
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