Epitope-based vaccine design: a comprehensive overview of bioinformatics approaches

S Parvizpour, MM Pourseif, J Razmara, MA Rafi… - Drug Discovery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Epitope vaccines provide maximal therapeutic efficacy with minimal side
effects.•Reverse vaccinology can be used for designing epitope vaccines.•Computational …

An overview of in silico vaccine design against different pathogens and cancer

K Kardani, A Bolhassani, A Namvar - Expert Review of Vaccines, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Due to overcome the hardness of the vaccine design, computational
vaccinology is emerging widely. Prediction of T cell and B cell epitopes, antigen processing …

THPdb: Database of FDA-approved peptide and protein therapeutics

SS Usmani, G Bedi, JS Samuel, S Singh, S Kalra… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
THPdb (http://crdd. osdd. net/raghava/thpdb/) is a manually curated repository of Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) approved therapeutic peptides and proteins. The information in …

Design of a multiepitope‐based peptide vaccine against the e protein of human COVID‐19: an immunoinformatics approach

MI Abdelmageed, AH Abdelmoneim… - BioMed research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background. A new endemic disease has spread across Wuhan City, China, in December
2019. Within few weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a novel …

mAHTPred: a sequence-based meta-predictor for improving the prediction of anti-hypertensive peptides using effective feature representation

B Manavalan, S Basith, TH Shin, L Wei, G Lee - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Cardiovascular disease is the primary cause of death globally accounting for
approximately 17.7 million deaths per year. One of the stakes linked with cardiovascular …

Identification of vaccine targets in pathogens and design of a vaccine using computational approaches

K Rawal, R Sinha, BA Abbasi, A Chaudhary, SK Nath… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Antigen identification is an important step in the vaccine development process.
Computational approaches including deep learning systems can play an important role in …

Computer-aided designing of immunosuppressive peptides based on IL-10 inducing potential

G Nagpal, SS Usmani, SK Dhanda, H Kaur, S Singh… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
In the past, numerous methods have been developed to predict MHC class II binders or T-
helper epitopes for designing the epitope-based vaccines against pathogens. In contrast …

Computer-aided prediction and design of IL-6 inducing peptides: IL-6 plays a crucial role in COVID-19

A Dhall, S Patiyal, N Sharma, SS Usmani… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that stimulates acute phase
responses, hematopoiesis and specific immune reactions. Recently, it was found that the IL …

PEPlife: a repository of the half-life of peptides

D Mathur, S Prakash, P Anand, H Kaur, P Agrawal… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Short half-life is one of the key challenges in the field of therapeutic peptides. Various
studies have reported enhancement in the stability of peptides using methods like chemical …

Designing of a Recombinant Multi-Epitopes Based Vaccine against Enterococcus mundtii Using Bioinformatics and Immunoinformatics Approaches

M Alharbi, A Alshammari, AF Alasmari… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Enterococcus species are an emerging group of bacterial pathogens that have a significant
role in hospital-associated infections and are associated with higher mortality and morbidity …