ePitope Informatics, an applied bioinformatics company providing services for epitope discovery. A particular focus is epitope prediction for the identification and targeting of antibody epitopes.

Our specialist expertise and experience, spanning nearly two decades.

An epitope discovery platform utilising consensus epitope prediction and relevant data mining for best accuracy.

Flexible services, which can be tailored to incorporate:

Significant savings of your time.

A quick, easy-to-use Internet-based service provision.

Competitive pricing structure.

Respect of your privacy and confidentiality of your information.

INFLUENZA AND EPITOPE RESOURCES
 
In the light of very recent developments regarding swine influenza, we provide the following links to influenza and relevant epitope resources (27 April 2009 - updated 04 January 2010):

• Influenza and epitopes database and tools Influenza Research Database at BioHealthBase (BioDefence and Public Health Database); National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID/NIH).

• Influenza Virus Resource: Information, Search and Analysis
  at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

• Pathogen Portal to the Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRCs)
  (NIAID/NIH).

• Swine Flu Epitopes Analysis The Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource (IEDB/ NIAID/NIH).

• Influenza Sequence and Epitope Database (ISED) at Korea National Institute of Health and Korea University.

• Influenza Virus Database (IVDB) at Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG).

New Commercial Services

Our no obligation online quotation request form allows you to choose antibody epitope prediction and additional options for related in silico analysis and annotation of your protein of interest. More easily, you can tailor our service to suit your needs.

New graphics workstations and stereoscopic 3-D viewing  hardware (StereoGraphics CrystalEyes® 3 and related hardware from Real D Corporation), for use with Discovery Studio software from Accelrys, allows our introduction of enhanced molecular modelling services for antibody epitope prediction and mapping to protein 3-D structure, including enhanced identification and characterisation of both linear and discontinuous ("conformational") epitopes and protein comparative modelling services.

Our epitope prediction and analysis services are offered with a competitive pricing structure, and our Internet-based utilities for secure service delivery are provided free of charge.

A detailed service e-Report (with free of charge secure e-document delivery) with publication quality graphics and nice-view-like annotation of output data.

Online quotation request, ordering, enquiry, support and feedback facilities.

Regularly updated site links and literature reference resources, and informational content related to protein analysis, annotation and antibody epitope prediction.

For those interested in T cell epitope prediction, we list links to, for example, Microsoft Research's Epitope Predictor online facility and open source software for allele-specific and supertype-specific HLA class I restricted CTL epitope prediction  (also from a Wiki page).

 ePitope Informatics listed in Nature feature articles:

 Click here for references.

 HUMAN PROTEIN ATLAS

 The Human Protein Atlas is an open, freely accessible resource for
 systematic exploration of the human proteome characterised by
 antibody proteomics (courtesy of The Swedish Human Proteome
 Resource (HPR) program). Antibodies are used for protein profiling,
 and the Human Protein Atlas shows expression and localization of
 proteins in a wide variety of normal human tissues and cancer cells,
 and is part of the HUPO Human Antibody Initiative (HAI).

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