Progress and challenges for the machine learning-based design of fit-for-purpose monoclonal antibodies

R Akbar, H Bashour, P Rawat, PA Robert, E Smorodina… - MAbs, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Although the therapeutic efficacy and commercial success of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs)
are tremendous, the design and discovery of new candidates remain a time and cost …

Adaptive immune receptor repertoire analysis

V Mhanna, H Bashour, K Lê Quý, P Barennes… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
B cell and T cell receptor repertoires compose the adaptive immune receptor repertoire
(AIRR) of an individual. The AIRR is a unique collection of antigen-specific receptors that …

Hopfield networks is all you need

H Ramsauer, B Schäfl, J Lehner, P Seidl… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We introduce a modern Hopfield network with continuous states and a corresponding
update rule. The new Hopfield network can store exponentially (with the dimension of the …

In silico proof of principle of machine learning-based antibody design at unconstrained scale

R Akbar, PA Robert, CR Weber, M Widrich, R Frank… - MAbs, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Generative machine learning (ML) has been postulated to become a major driver in the
computational design of antigen-specific monoclonal antibodies (mAb). However, efforts to …

A compact vocabulary of paratope-epitope interactions enables predictability of antibody-antigen binding

R Akbar, PA Robert, M Pavlović, JR Jeliazkov… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
Antibody-antigen binding relies on the specific interaction of amino acids at the paratope-
epitope interface. The predictability of antibody-antigen binding is a prerequisite for de novo …

Benchmarking of T cell receptor repertoire profiling methods reveals large systematic biases

P Barennes, V Quiniou, M Shugay, ES Egorov… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Monitoring the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire in health and disease can provide key
insights into adaptive immune responses, but the accuracy of current TCR sequencing …

Scirpy: a Scanpy extension for analyzing single-cell T-cell receptor-sequencing data

G Sturm, T Szabo, G Fotakis, M Haider, D Rieder… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Advances in single-cell technologies have enabled the investigation of T-cell phenotypes
and repertoires at unprecedented resolution and scale. Bioinformatic methods for the …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking solutions to the T-cell receptor epitope prediction problem: IMMREP22 workshop report

P Meysman, J Barton, B Bravi, L Cohen-Lavi… - ImmunoInformatics, 2023 - Elsevier
Many different solutions to predicting the cognate epitope target of a T-cell receptor (TCR)
have been proposed. However several questions on the advantages and disadvantages of …

Assessing developability early in the discovery process for novel biologics

ML Fernández-Quintero, A Ljungars, F Waibl, V Greiff… - MAbs, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Beyond potency, a good developability profile is a key attribute of a biological drug.
Selecting and screening for such attributes early in the drug development process can save …

Modern hopfield networks and attention for immune repertoire classification

M Widrich, B Schäfl, M Pavlović… - Advances in neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
A central mechanism in machine learning is to identify, store, and recognize patterns. How to
learn, access, and retrieve such patterns is crucial in Hopfield networks and the more recent …