About the Special Issue

Immunoinformatics is an interdisciplinary field resulting from the merge of immunology with bioinformatics, and its rapid advances opened completely new ways of analyzing and understanding the immune responses at a molecular level. This special issue is intended to cover selected research and recent development that represents the cutting edge in this dynamic area. From the use of innovative computational models to the application of machine learning for predicting the behavior of the immune system, this collection emphasizes cutting-edge bioinformatics as a driver in our understanding of immune mechanisms, disease susceptibility, and vaccine development, among others.

Bringing together a variety of studies on the expanding toolkit available for both immunologists and bioinformaticians will definitively contribute to commissionate next research. Discussion topics include but are not limited to novel algorithms for epitope prediction, advances in the analysis of immune repertoires, integration of multi-omics data to map immune responses, cellular morphology analysis, construction of immune gene expression signatures for disease prognosis (e.g., cancer), and design of immunoinformatics-driven therapeutics. This will be very useful for both the researcher and the clinician.

This special issue aims to provide novel insights into these advancements and further encourages collaboration and research efforts to advance the field of immunoinformatics in personalized medicine, therapeutic design, and public health. We invite colleagues from around the world to submit original articles, experimental protocols combined with in silico mechanistic studies, as well as bioinformatics-assisted reviews and meta-analyses.

Keywords: Immunoinformatics, Immune system phenomena, Immune cell signaling networks, Molecular docking simulation, Pathogen-Associated Molecular Patterns (PAMPs), Computational Immunology

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