Antigenic Cartography: Fighting the Flu with Maps

Author:Caitlin Dempsey • 6/01/08 • Categorized as Spatial Analysis

Terry Jones, an antigenic cartographer, posts on the O’Reilly site a follow-up to a talk given at the O’Reilly ETech conference. The use of cartographic techniques to model the jumping of virus through antigenic space can help researchers develop vaccine components by being able to predict the timing and direction of these jumps.