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Plexus Vaccine Licenses Molsoft To Develop Proprietary Virtual Epitope Databases.

Vaccine Weekly

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2001 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Plexus Vaccine Inc. and Molsoft LLC have entered into a key licensing agreement to discover and commercialize new interventional strategies for global infectious diseases, for drug-resistant microbes, and for chronic diseases associated with cryptic pathogens. Using the Molsoft ICM software suite, Plexus is developing Virtual Epitope databases of molecular disease targets for in silico design of structural mimics that can be readily synthesized, tested, and formulated as vaccines.

"This alliance represents an opportunity to use Molsoft's molecular modeling software and Plexus Vaccine's structure-based vaccine design to develop epitope-specific vaccines that generate neutralizing antibodies using deduction and mimicry of the 3D structural features of epitopes," said Dr. Ruben Abagyan, founder of MolSoft. "This approach will hasten the development of safe and effective vaccines." To facilitate maximum communication between Plexus and MolSoft, Dr. Abagyan will join the Plexus Vaccine board of directors and scientific advisory board.

"Recent advances in protein structural prediction, genomics, and bioinformatics have brought new ...

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