Re: Antigenic Index of a peptide

Dan Crimmins (crimmins@pathbox.wustl.edu)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 08:13:57 -0500

At 12:17 PM 7/30/98 -0500, Bao-Shiang Lee wrote:
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>Hi everyone,
>
>Does anyone know any free program that can predict the antigenicity of a
>peptide. MacVector seems can do this but it is an expensive program.
>Thanks!
>
>Bob Lee
>Protein Core Facility at UIC
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>
>

Bob,
The Expasy site has several such programs (http://expasy.hcuge.ch/)
although the calculations are usally performed on proteins and then
"antigenic" peptides extracted from the plots.

Regards,

Dan L. Crimmins
Washington University School of Medicine
Dept. Pathology/Division of Laboratory Medicine
660 S. Euclid Ave., Box 8118
St. Louis, MO 63110
Phone: 314-454-8514; Fax: 314-454-5208
e-mail: crimmins@labmed.wustl.edu