IMMUNOCAT---a data management system for epitope mapping studies.

To enable rationale vaccine design, studies of molecular and cellular mechanisms of immune recognition need to be linked with clinical studies in humans. A major challenge in conducting such translational research studies lies in the management and integration of large amounts and various types of d...

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Publicado en:Journal of Biomedicine & Biotechnology pp. 8p - 9
Autores principales: Chung JL, Sun J, Sidney J, Sette A, Peters B
Formato: pictorial tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
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          Chung JL
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          Sidney J
          Sette A
          Peters B
        affil: Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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          Antigens
          Computers and Computerization
          Data Management Methods
          Information Systems
          Allergens
          Antibodies
          Data Collection
          Hematologic Tests
          Peptides
          Research
          T Lymphocytes
          Vaccines
      ab: To enable rationale vaccine design, studies of molecular and cellular mechanisms of immune recognition need to be linked with clinical studies in humans. A major challenge in conducting such translational research studies lies in the management and integration of large amounts and various types of data collected from multiple sources. For this purpose, we have established 'IMMUNOCAT', an interactive data management system for the epitope discovery research projects conducted by our group. The system provides functions to store, query, and analyze clinical and experimental data, enabling efficient, systematic, and integrative data management. We demonstrate how IMMUNOCAT is utilized in a large-scale research contract that aims to identify epitopes in common allergens recognized by T cells from human donors, in order to facilitate the rational design of allergy vaccines. At clinical sites, demographic information and disease history of each enrolled donor are captured, followed by results of an allergen skin test and blood draw. At the laboratory site, T cells derived from blood samples are tested for reactivity against a panel of peptides derived from common human allergens. IMMUNOCAT stores results from these T cell assays along with MHC:peptide binding data, results from RAST tests for antibody titers in donor serum, and the respective donor HLA typing results. Through this system, we are able to perform queries and integrated analyses of the various types of data. This provides a case study for the use of bioinformatics and information management techniques to track and analyze data produced in a translational research study aimed at epitope identification.
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