Analyzing Messy Data Files
It’s not the fault of the database, it’s the fault of the individual scientists that described the epitopes. O.K. in a perfect world the curators would have gone through the entries and tried to standardize the descriptions. But they probably lack the time or expertise. I sympathize with them.

So what can you do? You have to use your own expertise or that of experimental scientists you are working with and make your own decisions, some of which will be incorrect.

This is a general problem with databases compiled from papers or individual submissions, and is a headache for data mining: misspellings, spaces or no spaces, hyphenated or not, different names for the same entity. Unfortunately there’s no fairy with a magic wand to solve the problem for you.