EFI - The European Federation for Immunogenetics

The EFI Links Page

Immunogenetic Societies

AIBT - Associazione Italiana di Immunogenetica e Biologia dei Trapianti.
ASEATTA - The Australasian and South East Asian Tissue Typing Association It has members in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand, India, Singapore, Mongolia, Malaysia, The Phillipines, South Africa, Indonesia, Japan, the USA and New Guinea.
ASHI -The American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.
BSHI - The British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Immungenetik - German Society for Immunogenetics.
DTS - Dutch Transplantation Society.
JSHI - Japanese Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.

Databases and Resources

Allelefrequencies.net - describes the frequencies of alleles in different populations, at various polymorphic regions with Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.
American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) - distribution of cells and cultures throughout Europe.
dbMHC - provides an open, publicly accessible platform for DNA, and clinical data related to the human Major Histocompatibilty Complex (MHC).
European Collection of Animal Cell Cultures (ECACC) - collection of authenticated cell cultures.
ESTDAB - provides a service enabling investigators to search online for HLA typed, immunologically characterised tumour cells as part of the European Commission Fifth Framework Infrastructures Program.
HLA Dictionary - presents the serologic equivalents of HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, -DRB3, -DRB4, -DRB5 and -DQB1 alleles and is an update of the one published in 2001. The data summarises equivalents obtained by the WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System, the International Cell Exchange (UCLA), the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), the 13th International Histocompatibilty Workshop.
HLA FactsBook - presents up-to-date and comprehensive information on the HLA genes in a manner that is accessible to both beginner and expert alike. The focus of the book is on the polymorphic HLA genes (HLA-A, B, C, DP, DQ, and DR) that are typed for in clinical HLA laboratories.
HLA Nomenclature Reports - The reports compiled by the WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System are available from the HLA Informatics Group pages at the Anthony Nolan Research Institute.
IEDB - contains data related to antibody and T cell epitopes for humans, non-human primates, rodents, and other animal species. The database also contains MHC binding data from a variety of different antigenic sources and immune epitope data.
The IMGT/HLA Database- provides a specialist databases for sequences of the human major histocompatibility complex (HLA) and includes the official sequences for the WHO HLA Nomenclature Committee For Factors of the HLA System.
The IMGT/LIGM Database - a comprehensive database of Ig and TcR from human and other vertebrates, with translation for fully annotated sequences.
The Immuno Polymorphism Database (IPD) - was developed in 2003 to provide a centralised system for the study of polymorphism in genes of the immune system currently covering non-human mhc sequences, KIR Sequences and access to the ESTDAB Database.
NetMHCpan - predicts binding of peptides to 478 and 791 different HLA A and B alleles using artificial neural networks (ANNs). This is a beta version of the server, and it is in the process of being updated with other features (prediction of user defined MHC molecules, etc)
SYFPEITHI - contains information on peptide sequences, anchor positions, MHC specificity, source proteins, source organisms, publication references.

Journals

Organisations

Anthony Nolan Trust - The UK's largest bone marrow registry.
Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide (BMDW) - Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide (BMDW) is the continuing effort to collect the HLA phenotypes of volunteer bone marrow donors and cord blood units, and for the coordination of their worldwide distribution.
France-Greffe de Moelle - The French Bone Marrow Registry.
UCLA Medical Center - Transplant Centre.
UK Transplant

Projects

14th International HLA and Immunogenetics Workshop - Website for workshop and conference.
International Histocompatibility Workshop and Congress - Website for workshop and conference.
International Histocompatibilty Working Group - Website for 13th IHWC working groups.
MADO - Optimisation of typing policies for European MArrow DOnor Registries socio-economic evaluation of molecular techniques and recruitment strategies.
The MHC Haplotype Project - offers a framework and resource for association studies of all MHC-linked diseases. It will provide the complete genomic sequences of at least 8 different HLA-homozygous typing haplotypes (listed below), their resulting variations (SNPs and indels) and ancestral relationships.
The Human Variome Project - A global initiative that will catalogue all human gene variations and will make that information freely available to researchers, clinicians and patients everywhere.