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 …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in computational structure-based antibody design

AM Hummer, B Abanades, CM Deane - Current opinion in structural biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Antibodies are currently the most important class of biotherapeutics and are used to treat
numerous diseases. Recent advances in computational methods are ushering in a new era …

Observed Antibody Space: A diverse database of cleaned, annotated, and translated unpaired and paired antibody sequences

TH Olsen, F Boyles, CM Deane - Protein Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The antibody repertoires of individuals and groups have been used to explore disease
states, understand vaccine responses, and drive therapeutic development. The arrival of B …

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 …

Machine learning for biologics: opportunities for protein engineering, developability, and formulation

H Narayanan, F Dingfelder, A Butté, N Lorenzen… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
Successful biologics must satisfy multiple properties including activity and particular
physicochemical features that are globally defined as developability. These multiple …

Machine-designed biotherapeutics: opportunities, feasibility and advantages of deep learning in computational antibody discovery

W Wilman, S Wróbel, W Bielska… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Antibodies are versatile molecular binders with an established and growing role as
therapeutics. Computational approaches to develo** and designing these molecules are …

Deep geometric representations for modeling effects of mutations on protein-protein binding affinity

X Liu, Y Luo, P Li, S Song, J Peng - PLoS computational biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Modeling the impact of amino acid mutations on protein-protein interaction plays a crucial
role in protein engineering and drug design. In this study, we develop GeoPPI, a novel …

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 …

Immunogenicity and humanization of single‐domain antibodies

MA Rossotti, K Bélanger, KA Henry… - The FEBS Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐domain antibodies (sdAbs), the autonomous variable domains of camelid and shark
heavy‐chain antibodies, have many desirable properties as components of biologic drugs …

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 …