Table 7

Effect of length of dengue virus serotype 2 (DV2) envelope protein sequences on short-peptide (9-mer) antigenic diversity.

Length of fragments

100% (460 aa)

60% (276 aa)

30% (138 aa)

20% (92 aa)

10% (46 aa)

5% (23 aa)

Number of fragments

187

187

187

187

187

187

Number of unique fragments

187

131

82

58

27

17

Minimal number of fragments that represent complete short-peptide antigenic diversity (Mean ± SE)

111 ± 0.11

74 ± 0.11

48 ± 0.17

38 ± 0.10

24 ± 0.10

14 ± 0.10

Percentage of fragments that represent complete short-peptide antigenic diversity (%) (Mean ± SE)

59 ± 0.06

40 ± 0.06

26 ± 0.09

20 ± 0.05

13 ± 0.05

7 ± 0.05

The mean and standard error (SE) values are shown for random repeated sampling of 20 times.

Khan et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2006 7(Suppl 5):S4   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-S5-S4