Design of a novel multi-epitope vaccine candidate against hepatitis C virus using structural and nonstructural proteins: An immunoinformatics approach

• Esmaeil Behmard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran

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• Hussein T. Abdulabbas,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Techniques, Faculty of Health and Medical Techniques, Imam Ja’afar Al-Sadiq University, Al Muthanna, Iraq

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• Saade Abdalkareem Jasim,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Laboratory Techniques Department, Al-maarif University College, Ramadi, Iraq

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• Sohrab Najafipour,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran

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• Abdolmajid Ghasemian ,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: parviz@modares.ac.ir (PA); kouhpayeha@gmail.com (AK); majidghasemian86@gmail.com (AG)

  Affiliation Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1243-6341

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• Akbar Farjadfar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnology, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran

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• Ebrahim Barzegari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Medical Biology Research Center, Health Technology Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

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• Amin Kouhpayeh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: parviz@modares.ac.ir (PA); kouhpayeha@gmail.com (AK); majidghasemian86@gmail.com (AG)

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran

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• Parviz Abdolmaleki

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation

  * E-mail: parviz@modares.ac.ir (PA); kouhpayeha@gmail.com (AK); majidghasemian86@gmail.com (AG)

  Affiliation Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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