About Course
Discover how computational tools can help you investigate immune-related sequences and evaluate ideas for vaccine research. Immune Informatics introduces the biological foundations alongside practical sequence-analysis and antigenicity tools, helping you move from raw sequence information to an initial, evidence-informed assessment of potential research candidates.
What You Will Learn
- Immunology foundations
Understand the basic concepts behind immunoinformatics. - Immune-sequence analysis
Use IgBLAST and BLAST to investigate sequences. - Sequence comparison
Explore multiple sequence alignment with Clustal Omega. - Vaccine research
Study vaccine-design concepts and antigenicity assessment with VaxiJen.
Skills You Will Build
Learn to compare immune-related sequences, recognize useful sequence relationships, interpret alignment and antigenicity results, and connect computational findings with an immunology research question.
Practical Applications
Apply these foundations to preliminary vaccine-candidate evaluation, comparative antigen analysis, and sequence-focused immunology projects. Use computational results to prioritize research ideas for further investigation and experimental validation.
Course Content
basic immuno-informatics course
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basic immuno-informatics course
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Lecture 2
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Lecture 3
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Lecture 4
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practical
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IgBlast tool
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BLAST
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Results _ Clustal Omega _ Multiple Sequence Alignment _ EMBL-EBI
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Vaxijen