Table of Contents:
  • Immune systems and systems biology
  • Contemporary challenges to the immune system
  • Sequence analysis in immunology
  • Methods applied in immunological bioinformatics
  • DNA microarrays in immunology
  • Prediction of cytotoxic T cell (MHC Class I) epitopes
  • Antigen processing in the MHC Class I pathway
  • Prediction of helper T cell (MHC Class II epitopes)
  • Processing of MHC Class II epitopes
  • B cell epitopes
  • Vaccine design
  • Web-based tools for vaccine design
  • MHC polymorphism
  • Predicting immunogenicity : an integrative approach