Similar to getting lost in a language when moving country, you might encounter a language barrier when moving research fields. This dictionary will guide you in the complex world of immunoinformatics, with a focus on antibodies. Whether your main research will be in this field, you want to apply your machine learning model on antibodies, or you just want to understand the research performed in OPIG, this dictionary will get you started.

The Antibody Dictionary:

Affinity maturation: The optimisation process of naive antibodies to memory antibodies such that the antibody is optimised for a specific antigen. 

Antibody: (immunoglobulin) a Y-shaped molecule important in the adaptive immune system. A canonical antibody consists of two identical heavy chains and two identical smaller light chains.