Strategies for Potential Vaccine Candidate Identification
We utilized several approaches to identify the best epitopes for designing our vaccine. These have been described below.
Strategy 1: Includes filtering of proteomethrough all the 7 filters (write names??) in a sequential order, followed by selection of unique proteins from every family to design vaccine constructs.
Strategy 2: Includes filtering of protein without sub-cellular localization and sub-cellular localizationscore (5 filters) filters. For this, we used PSORTb as well as unique proteins from each family having the highest antigenic scores to design multi-epitope vaccine constructscontaining only unique proteins.
Strategy 3: In this, random filtering of proteins (non-sequentially) was used to identify desired protein candidatesand utilize these to design vaccine constructs.
Strategy 4: In this, a conversion of T.cruzi CL Brener (19,602) final file into a binary file occurs which are rankedbased on the order of their threshold values.
Strategy 5:
In this, the scaffold WGS (NW_001849447.1 ) were downloaded from which ORFs ( 121349, precisely) were extracted using PRODIGAL. These ORFs subjected to the RV pipeline to shortlist the ORF count to 1640.