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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2007
Darko Kirovski, Kirkland, WA (US);
David E. Heckerman, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nebojsa Jojic, Redmond, WA (US);
Darko Kirovski, Kirkland, WA (US);
David E. Heckerman, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nebojsa Jojic, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methodologies for efficient vaccine design are disclosed herein. A methodology for efficient vaccine design in accordance with one or more embodiments disclosed herein may be operable to receive a graph having vertices corresponding to epitope sequences present in the pathogen population, weights for respective vertices corresponding to respective frequencies with which corresponding epitope sequences appear in the pathogen population, and directed edges that connect vertices that correspond to overlapping epitope sequences. Such a methodology may also be operable to determine a candidate vaccine sequence of overlapping epitope sequences by identifying a path though the graph corresponding to a series of connected vertices and directed edges that maximizes the total weight of the vertices in the path for a desired vaccine sequence length.