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The document presents a semi-empirical method developed by A.S. Kolaskar and Prasad C. Tongaonkar for predicting antigenic determinants on protein antigens, achieving approximately 75% accuracy. The method utilizes physicochemical properties of amino acids and their frequencies in known epitopes to identify potential antigenic sites, focusing on hydrophobic residues. The results demonstrate that this approach outperforms previous methods and is simple to implement, making it useful for vaccine development a

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