“…The single most selective event defining T cell epitopes is the binding of peptide fragments to the HLA complexes (Yewdell and Bennink, 1999;Haque and Blum, 2005). Most HLA class II binding prediction methods have been trained and evaluated on very limited data sets covering only a single or a few different HLA class II alleles (Karpenko et al, 2005;Murugan and Dai, 2005;Chang et al, 2006;Salomon and Flower, 2006;Bui et al, 2005;Nielsen et al, 2004;Wan et al, 2006;Brusic et al, 1998). To the best of our knowledge, methods like Propred (Singh and Raghava, 2001) and TEPITOPE (Sturniolo et al, 1999), are experimentally derived virtual matrix-based prediction methods that cover different HLA-DR alleles.…”