Toward computational modelling on immune system function
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Francesco Pappalardo1, Marzio Pennisi2, Pedro A Reche3
1Department of Drug Science, University of Catania, V.le A. Doria 6, Catania, 95125, Italy. francesco.pappalardo@unict.it.
Abstract:
The 2nd Computational Methods for the Immune System function Workshop has been held in Madrid in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2018) in Madrid, Spain, from December 3 to 6, 2018. The workshop has been obtained 100% more submissions in respect to the first edition, highlighting a growing interest for the treated topics. The best papers (9) have been selected for extension in this special issue, with themes about immune system and disease simulation, computer-aided design of novel candidate vaccines, methods for the analysis of immune system involved diseases based on statistical methods, meta-heuristics and game theory, and modelling strategies for improving the simulation of the immune system dynamics.
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