Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 20th, 2009
SAN DIEGO – (May 5, 2009) Key improvements in a major infectious disease database that will aid vaccine development worldwide were unveiled today with the 2.0 launch of the National Institutes of Health-sponsored Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource (IEDB). The 2.0 launch was announced by a research team from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, who designed, developed and continue to host the database under a multi-million dollar NIH contract.
The IEDB is the world's largest collection of scientific data on how the immune system responds to infectious diseases. It is freely available online to researchers worldwide at: www.iedb.org
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-05-20)
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