Immunoinformatics and its role in microbes and vaccines

Immunoinformatics utilizes bioinformatics applications such as immune related databases withintegration of mathematics, information science, computer engineering, genomics, proteomics which bridgeimmunology and informatics. Plants lack adaptive immune system and rely on innate immunity whichconsists of many protein interactions, which protect them from infections. The plant innate immunity consistsof many molecular switches that help in activation of plant innate immunity. The plant innate immunity alsoconsists of many elicitors and suppressors that elicit and suppress the plant innate immunity respectively.Fragment-based drug discovery is a new approach that builds drugs from small chemical structures.