title: Bioinformatic strategies for better understanding of immune function.
abstract: Novartis Foundation sponsored a Symposium which brought together a group of experimental immunologists, theoretical immunologists, and bioinformaticians to discuss the new field of immunoinformatics. The discussion focused on immunological databases, antigen processing and presentation, immunogenomics, host-pathogen interactions, and mathematical modelling of the immune system. A main conclusion of the meeting is the critical role played by immunoinformatics in current immunology research. In particular, immunoinformatics provides a foundation for the emerging fields of systems immunology and immunogenomics.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Medical Informatics, Division of Science and Design, University of Canberra, Bruce ACT 2617, Australia. nikolai.petrovsky@anu.edu.au
authors.forename: Nikolai
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Petrovsky
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schönbach
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Brusic
mesh_terms: D000486:Allergy and Immunology; D000818:Animals; D017951:Antigen Presentation; D019295:Computational Biology; D016208:Databases, Factual; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D007125:Immunogenetics; D018448:Models, Immunological