Allergy Bioinformatics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tao, Ailin (Editor), Raz, Eyal (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Translational Bioinformatics, 8
• Subjects: Medicine.; Molecular biology.; Bioinformatics.; Biomedicine.; Molecular Medicine.

The book introduces the bioinformatics resources and tools available for the study of allergenicity. Allergy symptoms affect more than 25% of the population in industrialized countries. At the same time, biotechnology is a rapidly developing field, which often involves the introduction of potentiall...

Table of Contents:

• Allergic Disease Epidemiology
• The Pathogenesis of Allergy: A Brief Introduction
• Genetics and Epigenetic Regulation in Allergic Diseases
• Cross-Reactivity
• From Allergen Extracts to Allergen Genes and Allergen Molecules
• Allergen Gene Cloning
• High Throughput Screening of Allergy
• Surrogate Markers for Allergen-Specific Immunotherapy
• Immune Responses to Allergens in Atopic Disease: Considerations for Bioinformatics
• Antigenicity, Immunogenicity and Allergenicity
• Bioinformatic Classifiers for Allergen Sequence Discrimination
• Strategies for the Modification and Evaluation of Allergenicity
• Bioinformatics Methods to Predict Allergen Epitopes
• Allergen Database.