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The Immuno Polymorphism Database

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Bioinformatics for Immunomics

Part of the book series: Immunomics Reviews: ((IMMUN,volume 3))

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The Immuno Polymorphism Database (IPD) (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/) is a set of specialist databases developed for the study of polymorphic genes of the immune system. The Database includes both information on allelic sequences of various genes and a cell bank of immunologically characterised melanoma cell lines. The sequence databases are developed in collaboration with specialist groups and nomenclature committees who provide and curate individual sections before they are submitted to IPD for online publication. These databases include: IPD-KIR, which contains the allelic sequences of Killer-cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors; IPD-MHC, a database of sequences of the major histocompatibility complex of different species; and IPD-HPA, alloantigens expressed only on platelet. The IPD-ESTAB section of the project provides access to the European Searchable Tumour Cell-Line Database (ESTDAB), a cell bank of immunologically characterised melanoma cell lines.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Peter Parham, Libby Guethlein, Christian Garcia and Chrissy Roberts for their work on IPD-KIR; our IPD-MHC collaborators Shirley Ellis, Lorna Kennedy, Ronald Bontrop, Natasja de Groot, Lutz Walter, Douglas Smith, Keith Ballingall, Mike Stear and René Stet; Nick Watkins and Paul Metcalfe for IPD-HPA and Graham Pawelec for ESTDAB. Our thanks also go to Matthew Waller and Sylvie Fail for their work on the tools and processing of submissions for the various databases and finally Peter Stoehr at the EBI for assisting in the continued collaboration between our group and the EBI.

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  1. The Anthony Nolan Research Institute, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, Hampstead, NW3 2QG, London, UK

    Steven G. E. Marsh

  2. UCL Cancer Institute, Royal Free Campus, Pond Street, Hampstead, NW3 2QG, London, UK

    Steven G. E. Marsh

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Research, Edward Jenner Inst. for Vaccine, Compton, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 7NN, United Kingdom

    Darren D.R. Flower

  2. Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom

    Matthew Davies

  3. Dept. Chemistry &, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, 2109, Australia

    Shoba Ranganathan

Appendix: Access and Contact

Appendix: Access and Contact

IPD Homepage

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/

IPD-KIR Homepage

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/kir/

IPD-MHC Homepage

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/mhc/

IPD-HPA Homepage

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/hpa/

IPD-ESTDAB Homepage

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/estdab/

Contact: ipd@ebi.ac.uk

If you are interested in contributing to the project, there are specific guidelines for the inclusion of new sections, and interested parties should contact Prof. SGE Marsh, marsh@ebi.ac.uk for further information.

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Robinson, J., Marsh, S.G.E. (2009). The Immuno Polymorphism Database. In: Flower, D., Davies, M., Ranganathan, S. (eds) Bioinformatics for Immunomics. Immunomics Reviews:, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0540-6_2

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