The lumpy skin disease (LSD) virus of the Poxviridae family is a serious threat that mostly affects cattle and causes significant economic loss. LSD has potential to spread widely its rapidly across borders. Despite availability information, there still no competitive vaccine available for LSD. Therefore, current study was conducted develop an epitope-based efficient, secure, biocompatible stim...

IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system (http://www.imgt.org), was created in 1989 by Marie-Paule Lefranc, Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire LIGM (Université Montpellier 2 and CNRS) at Montpellier, France, in order to standardize and manage the complexity of immunogenetics data. The building of a unique ontology, IMGT-ONTOLOGY, has made IMGT the global reference in imm...

The PE and PPE proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis form a source of antigenic variation among different strains of this bacterium. Two of the PE_PGRS protein-encoding genes, rv3812 and rv3018c, are expressed in pathogenic mycobacteria and are implicated, respectively, in the persistence of the organism in macrophages and in virulence. Peptides derived from these proteins have been predicted ...

The recent outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in Brazil has developed to a global health concern due to its likely association with birth defects (primary microcephaly) and neurological complications. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop a vaccine to prevent or a medicine to treat the infection. In this study, immunoinformatics approach was employed to predict antigenic epitope...

BACKGROUND Neisseria meningitidis, a life-threatening human pathogen with the potential to cause large epidemics, can be isolated from the nasopharynx of 5-15% of adults. The aim of the current study was to evaluate biophysical and biochemical properties and immunological aspects of chimeric acyl-carrier protein-macrophage infectivity potentiator protein-type IV pilus biogenesis protein antigen...

Aspergillus fumigatus is capable of causing invasive aspergillosis or acute bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, and the current situation is alarming. There are no vaccine or allergen shots available for Aspergillus-induced allergies. Thus, a novel approach in designing of an effective vaccine or allergen shot candidate against A. fumigatus is needed. Using immunoinformatics approaches from the cha...

Motivation: The analysis of antibodies and T-cell receptors (TCRs) concentrations in serum is a fundamental problem in immunoinformatics. Repertoire construction is a preliminary step of analysis of clonal lineages, understanding of immune response dynamics, population analysis of immunoglobulin and TCR loci. Emergence of MiSeq Illumina sequencing machine in 2013 opened horizons of investigatio...