A research team from the College of Biomedical Medical Informatics at the University of Information and Communication Technology has successfully published a rigorous scientific paper in the international journal Acta Tropica, issued by Elsevier, as part of their efforts to enhance the university’s scientific presence in reputable international journals.
The research team included Asst. Lect. Ali Abdul Qader, Asst. Lect. Farah Mohammed, and Asst. Lect. Maryam Qasim, in international scientific collaboration with Professor Shaher from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).

The paper focused on the application of bioinformatics techniques to screen potential vaccine candidates against the parasite Leishmania major.
The research relied on a comprehensive analysis of the parasite’s complete proteome through the development and implementation of a systematic, multi-stage filtering pipeline aimed at selecting vaccine candidate proteins based on precise immunological and functional criteria.
The efficiency of the proposed methodology was validated by testing it on 12 protein targets that had previously been used in earlier vaccine studies, employing the same pipeline.
The study results led to the identification of eight novel candidate proteins that had not been previously tested in vaccine development, including four proteins of unknown function, opening promising research horizons for future studies in the field of computational vaccine development.
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https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1mJe-,2Uw2lAS