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Publications by Nora C. Toussaint

Ubeda, C, Bucci, V, Caballero, S, Djukovic, A, Toussaint, NC, Equinda, M, Lipuma, L, Ling, L, Gobourne, A, No, D, Taur, Y, Jenq, R, van den Brink, M, Xavier, J, and Pamer, E (2013). Intestinal microbiota containing Barnesiella cures vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium colonization. Infect. Immun., doi: 10.1128/​IAI.01197-12.

Malisi, C, Schumann, M, Toussaint, NC, Kageyama, J, Kohlbacher, O, and Höcker, B (2012). Binding pocket optimization by computational protein design. PLoS ONE 7(12): e52505.

Toussaint, NC, Maman, Y, Kohlbacher, O, and Louzoun, Y (2011). Universal peptide vaccines – optimal peptide vaccine based on viral sequence conservation. Vaccine, 29(47):8745-53.

Toussaint, NC, Feldhahn, M, Ziehm, M, Stevanović, S, and Kohlbacher, O (2011). T-Cell Epitope Prediction Based on Self-Tolerance. Proceedings of the 2nd Immunoinformatics and Computational Immunology Workshop (ICIW).

Canzar, S, Toussaint, NC, and Klau, GW (2011). An Exact Algorithm for Side-Chain Placement in Protein Design. Optimization Letters, 1-14.

Hildebrandt, A, Dehof, AK, Rurainski, A, Bertsch, A, Schumann, M, Toussaint, NC, Moll, A, Stockel, D, Nickels, S, Mueller, SC, Lenhof, H-P, and Kohlbacher, O (2010). BALL - Biochemical Algorithms Library 1.3. BMC Bioinformatics, 11:531.

Toussaint, NC, Widmer, C, Kohlbacher, O, and Rätsch, G (2010). 
Exploiting Physico-Chemical Properties in String Kernels. BMC Bioinformatics, 11(Suppl 8):S7.

Widmer, C, Altun, Y, Toussaint, NC, and Rätsch, G (2010). 
Inferring Latent Task Structure for Multi-Task Learning via Multiple Kernel Learning.  BMC Bioinformatics, 11(Suppl 8):S5.

Widmer, C, Toussaint, NC, Altun, Y, Kohlbacher, O, and Rätsch, G (2010). Novel Machine Learning Methods for MHC Class I Binding Prediction. In: Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics 5th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2010, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, September 22-24, 2010. Proceedings, ed. by Tjeerd M.H. Dijkstra, Evgeni Tsivtsivadze, Elena Marchiori and Tom Heskes, vol. 6282, pp. 98-109, Springer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Toussaint, NC and Kohlbacher, O (2009). OptiTope - A Web Server for the Selection of an Optimal Set of Peptides for Epitope-based Vaccines. Nucl. Acids Res., 37:W617-22.

Toussaint, NC and Kohlbacher, O (2009). Towards in silico design of epitope-based vaccines. Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 4(10):1047-1060.

Toussaint, NC, Dönnes, P, and Kohlbacher, O (2008). A Mathematical Framework for the Selection of an Optimal Set of Peptides for Epitope-based Vaccines. PLoS Comput. Biol., 4(12):e1000246.