Predicting influenza antigenicity from Hemagglutintin sequence data based on a joint random forest method

Abstract Timely identification of emerging antigenic variants is critical to influenza vaccine design. The accuracy of a sequence-based antigenic prediction method relies on the choice of amino acids substitution matrices. In this study, we first compared a comprehensive 95 substitution matrices ref...

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Main Authors: Yuhua Yao, Xianhong Li, Bo Liao, Li Huang, Pingan He, Fayou Wang, Jiasheng Yang, Hailiang Sun, Yulong Zhao, Jialiang Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01699-z