Development and use of machine learning algorithms in vaccine target selection

B Bravi - npj Vaccines, 2024 - nature.com
Computer-aided discovery of vaccine targets has become a cornerstone of rational vaccine
design. In this article, I discuss how Machine Learning (ML) can inform and guide key …

Artificial intelligence and neoantigens: paving the path for precision cancer immunotherapy

A Bulashevska, Z Nacsa, F Lang, M Braun… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cancer immunotherapy has witnessed rapid advancement in recent years, with a particular
focus on neoantigens as promising targets for personalized treatments. The convergence of …

Accurate prediction of HLA class II antigen presentation across all loci using tailored data acquisition and refined machine learning

JB Nilsson, S Kaabinejadian, H Yari, MGD Kester… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Accurate prediction of antigen presentation by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II
molecules is crucial for rational development of immunotherapies and vaccines targeting …

NetTCR-2.0 enables accurate prediction of TCR-peptide binding by using paired TCRα and β sequence data

A Montemurro, V Schuster, HR Povlsen… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Prediction of T-cell receptor (TCR) interactions with MHC-peptide complexes remains highly
challenging. This challenge is primarily due to three dominant factors: data accuracy, data …

Post-translational modifications reshape the antigenic landscape of the MHC I immunopeptidome in tumors

A Kacen, A Javitt, MP Kramer, D Morgenstern… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Post-translational modification (PTM) of antigens provides an additional source of
specificities targeted by immune responses to tumors or pathogens, but identifying antigen …

Enhancing TCR specificity predictions by combined pan-and peptide-specific training, loss-scaling, and sequence similarity integration

MF Jensen, M Nielsen - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Predicting the interaction between Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I-
presented peptides and T-cell receptors (TCR) holds significant implications for vaccine …

Machine learning reveals limited contribution of trans-only encoded variants to the HLA-DQ immunopeptidome

JB Nilsson, S Kaabinejadian, H Yari, B Peters… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II antigen presentation is key for controlling and
triggering T cell immune responses. HLA-DQ molecules, which are believed to play a major …

Signal peptide efficiency: from high-throughput data to prediction and explanation

S Grasso, V Dabene, MMWB Hendriks… - ACS synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The passage of proteins across biological membranes via the general secretory (Sec)
pathway is a universally conserved process with critical functions in cell physiology and …

Peptides of a feather: How computation Is taking peptide therapeutics under its wing

TDD Kazmirchuk, C Bradbury-Jost, TA Withey… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Leveraging computation in the development of peptide therapeutics has garnered
increasing recognition as a valuable tool to generate novel therapeutics for disease-related …

Machine learning approaches to TCR repertoire analysis

Y Katayama, R Yokota, T Akiyama… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Sparked by the development of genome sequencing technology, the quantity and quality of
data handled in immunological research have been changing dramatically. Various data …