Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 218590, 26 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/218590
Review Article
Emerging Vaccine Informatics
1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
2Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, 53100 Siena, Italy
3EpiVax, Inc., Providence, RI 02903, USA
4Institute for Immunology and Informatics, University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI 02903, USA
5HIV Vaccine and Special Studies Team, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC/DHAP/EB), Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Received 8 December 2010; Accepted 31 December 2010
Academic Editor: Rodomiro Ortiz
Copyright © 2010 Yongqun He et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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