Aims

• To introduce the problem of predicting associations between peptides and class II MHC molecules.

Objectives

After this lecture you will:

• be aware of how bioinformatics techniques can be used in predicting MHC-peptide interactions.

Supplementary Material

For more information on modelling class II MHC molecules, see:

Swain, M.T., Brooks, A.J. and Kemp, G.J.L. (2001) An automated approach to modelling class II MHC alleles and predicting peptide binding. Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Symposium on Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp 81-88. (PDF)