Discovery of Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies (bNAbs) has given a great boost to HIV vaccine research. Study of bNAbs capable of neutralizing a broad array of different HIV strains is important for a number of reasons: (i) structures of antigens co-crystallized with bNAbs are used as templates in HIV vaccine design; (ii) bNAbs can be effective as therapeutics; (iii) preventive use of bNAbs is a promising direction in AIDS care. The goal of bNAber is to collect, analyze, compare and present bNAbs data, thus helping researchers to create HIV vaccine.
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