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Understanding the Immune System by Computer-Aided Modeling

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We describe some computer models of the immune system and in particular of its response to the HIV infection. Then we introduce our model and show some results of simulations of the AIDS disease progression.

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  1. Institute for Computing Applications (IAC), National Research Council (CNR), Viale del Policlinico 137, 00161 Rome, Italy

    Massimo Bernaschi & Filippo Castiglione

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  1. Division of Genomics and Genetics, School of Biological Sciences Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Singapore

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  2. Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Biotechnology Research Institute Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

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  3. Director of Bioinformatics, Cancer Vaccine Center Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, HIM 418 Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

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Bernaschi, M., Castiglione, F. (2008). Understanding the Immune System by Computer-Aided Modeling. In: Schönbach, C., Ranganathan, S., Brusic, V. (eds) Immunoinformatics., vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72968-8_8

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