A suite of tools for immunological research. EpiToolKit offers a variety of prediction methods that may be run simultaneously for predicting MHC Class I and II ligands, and minor histocompatibility antigens. The influence of sequence polymorphisms or mutations on potential T-cell epitopes may also be examined.
IEDB-3D is the 3D structural component of the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB). IEDB-3D catalogs B- and T-cell epitopes and Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) ligands for which 3D structures of complexes with antibodies, T-cell receptors or MHC molecules are available in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Journal articles that are primary citations of PDB structures and that define immune epitopes are curated within IEDB along with accompanying functional assays and immunologically relevant information. For each curated structure, IEDB-3D provides calculated data on intermolecular contacts and interface areas and includes an application, EpitopeViewer, to visualize the structures. IEDB-3D is fully embedded within IEDB, thus allowing structural data, both curated and calculated, and all accompanying information to be queried using multiple search interfaces. These include queries for epitopes recognized in different pathogens, eliciting different functional immune responses, and recognized by different components of the immune system.
SVMHC is a server for prediction of MHC class I and class II binding peptides. SVMHC can be used to find likely binders in a protein sequence and to investigate the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms on MHC-peptide binding.