ImmunoGrid, an integrative environment for large-scale simulation of the immune system for vaccine discovery, design and optimization

F. Pappalardo, M. D. Halling-Brown, N. Rapin, P. Zhang, D. Alemani, A. Emerson, P. Paci, P. Duroux, M. Pennisi, A. Palladini, O. Miotto, D. Churchill (+11 others)
2008 Briefings in Bioinformatics  
Francesco Pappalardo earned his MSc and PhD degrees from University of Catania. He is a postdoctoral fellow and has a temporary professorial appointment in Mathematics at the University of Catania. His major research area is on modeling immune system responses involved in several pathologies, including viral infections, tumors, multiple sclerosis and atherosclerosis. Mark D. Halling-Brown has research interests in the areas of Bioinformatics, Computational Immunology, Chemogenomics and Grid
more » ... uting. Originally trained as a computer scientist, he holds a masters and PhD in Bioinformatics and is currently involved with developing techniques for improvement of drug discovery for cancer. Nicolas Rapin holds a masters degree in Food Engineering and Computational Molecular Biology, and a PhD in Bioinformatics and Bio-simulation. His research interests focus on merging computational modeling and machine learning methods to explain experimental data in Biology. He is now a postdoctoral fellow in the Pharmaceutical Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Ping Zhang has a masters and a PhD in Information Technology and 12 years work experience in Electronics. Her current research interests include computational and statistical modeling, pattern recognition and Bioinformatics. She works as a Bioinformatician at the
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