International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 67 - Number 2 |
Year of Publication: 2013 |
Authors: Ahmed Sharaf–eldin, Aliaa Youssif, Samar Kassim, Doaa Khalil |
10.5120/11370-6637 |
Ahmed Sharaf–eldin, Aliaa Youssif, Samar Kassim, Doaa Khalil . Information Gain based Methodology to Predict the Effect of Conformational Change on the Existence of f10 Epitope on the Surface of Human H5N1 Virus Hemagglutinin Protein. International Journal of Computer Applications. 67, 2 ( April 2013), 34-41. DOI=10.5120/11370-6637
Bio-informatics tools are widely used to obtain results that are hard to be obtained by physical experiments alone. In this study, we predicted the 3D structure of all human H5N1 hemagglutinin proteins with estimated precision 100%. We tested the existence of the F10 antibody epitope at their surfaces. The information gain (IG) is applied to calculate the degree of association between each position mutation and the absence of F10 antibody epitope on the protein surface. We identified amino acid positions that are responsible for the protein escape from neutralization by f10 antibody.