Citing the IEDB

Data and tools within the IEDB are presented as a public resource.  Users are requested to consider citing the IEDB when they present information obtained from the IEDB or use tools contained in the Analysis Resource.  It is expected that the authors of an entry as well as the IEDB are properly cited whenever their work is referred to:

1. The IEDB website should be cited using the URL:  http://www.iedb.org
2. The journal reference for the IEDB was updated in 2018 and should be cited as:

Vita R, Mahajan S, Overton JA, Dhanda SK, Martini S, Cantrell JR, Wheeler DK, Sette A, Peters B. The Immune Epitope Database (IEDB): 2018 update. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jan 8;47(D1):D339-D343. doi: 10.1093/nar/gky1006. PMID: 30357391

Citation information for the different prediction and analysis tools is indicated at the top of their respective results pages and can also be found here.  Such information can also be found in the "Reference" tab of each tool.