LIAIs project efforts will be accelerated through bioinformatics along with the use of the allergy epitope information already in the IEDB. Bioinformatics uses computer databases, algorithms and statistical techniques to analyze biological information. We developed the IEDB and were going to take advantage of that huge resource to improve our epitope identification algorithms based on that data, said Bjoern Peters, Ph.D., project co-investigator. Well use those algorithms to statistically determine which allergy epitopes are most likely to trigger a T cell response and then test those assumptions in the lab. By using bioinformatics, we will greatly speed the development of the project data.
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