A transformer-based model to predict peptide–HLA class I binding and optimize mutated peptides for vaccine design

Y Chu, Y Zhang, Q Wang, L Zhang, X Wang… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) can recognize and bind foreign peptides to present them to
specialized immune cells, then initiate an immune response. Computational prediction of the …

Unlocking the black box: an in-depth review on interpretability, explainability, and reliability in deep learning

E ŞAHiN, NN Arslan, D Özdemir - Neural Computing and Applications, 2024 - Springer
Deep learning models have revolutionized numerous fields, yet their decision-making
processes often remain opaque, earning them the characterization of “black-box” models …

Peptide-binding specificity prediction using fine-tuned protein structure prediction networks

A Motmaen, J Dauparas, M Baek… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Peptide-binding proteins play key roles in biology, and predicting their binding specificity is
a long-standing challenge. While considerable protein structural information is available, the …

DisoLipPred: accurate prediction of disordered lipid-binding residues in protein sequences with deep recurrent networks and transfer learning

A Katuwawala, B Zhao, L Kurgan - Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Intrinsically disordered protein regions interact with proteins, nucleic acids and
lipids. Regions that bind lipids are implicated in a wide spectrum of cellular functions and …

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 …

DeepMHCI: an anchor position-aware deep interaction model for accurate MHC-I peptide binding affinity prediction

W Qu, R You, H Mamitsuka, S Zhu - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Computationally predicting major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I)
peptide binding affinity is an important problem in immunological bioinformatics, which is …

CapsNet-MHC predicts peptide-MHC class I binding based on capsule neural networks

M Kalemati, S Darvishi, S Koohi - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) binds to the derived peptides from
pathogens to present them to killer T cells on the cell surface. Developing computational …

Positional SHAP (PoSHAP) for Interpretation of machine learning models trained from biological sequences

Q Dickinson, JG Meyer - PLOS Computational Biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Machine learning with multi-layered artificial neural networks, also known as “deep
learning,” is effective for making biological predictions. However, model interpretation is …

Structure modeling and specificity of peptide-MHC class I interactions using geometric deep learning

A Aronson, T Hochner, T Cohen… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) plays a major role in the adaptive immune
response by recognizing foreign proteins through binding to their peptides. In humans alone …

HLAEquity: Examining biases in pan-allele peptide-HLA binding predictors

A Conev, R Fasoulis, S Hall-Swan, R Ferreira… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Peptide-HLA (pHLA) binding prediction is essential in screening peptide candidates for
personalized peptide vaccines. Machine learning (ML) pHLA binding prediction tools are …