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 …

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 …

The immuneML ecosystem for machine learning analysis of adaptive immune receptor repertoires

M Pavlović, L Scheffer, K Motwani, C Kanduri… - Nature Machine …, 2021 - nature.com
Adaptive immune receptor repertoires (AIRR) are key targets for biomedical research as
they record past and ongoing adaptive immune responses. The capacity of machine …

Genetic variation in the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus shapes the human antibody repertoire

OL Rodriguez, Y Safonova, CA Silver, K Shields… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Variation in the antibody response has been linked to differential outcomes in disease, and
suboptimal vaccine and therapeutic responsiveness, the determinants of which have not …

The evolutionary and functional significance of germline immunoglobulin gene variation

M Pennell, OL Rodriguez, CT Watson, V Greiff - Trends in immunology, 2023 - cell.com
The recombination between immunoglobulin (IG) gene segments determines an individual's
naïve antibody repertoire and, consequently,(auto) antigen recognition. Emerging evidence …

Single-cell analysis of immune recognition in chronic myeloid leukemia patients following tyrosine kinase inhibitor discontinuation

J Huuhtanen, S Adnan-Awad, J Theodoropoulos… - Leukemia, 2024 - nature.com
Immunological control of residual leukemia cells is thought to occur in patients with chronic
myeloid leukemia (CML) that maintain treatment-free remission (TFR) following tyrosine …

Evolution and modulation of antigen-specific T cell responses in melanoma patients

J Huuhtanen, L Chen, E Jokinen, H Kasanen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Analyzing antigen-specific T cell responses at scale has been challenging. Here, we
analyze three types of T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire data (antigen-specific TCRs, TCR …

Unconstrained generation of synthetic antibody–antigen structures to guide machine learning methodology for antibody specificity prediction

PA Robert, R Akbar, R Frank, M Pavlović… - Nature Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning (ML) is a key technology for accurate prediction of antibody–
antigen binding. Two orthogonal problems hinder the application of ML to antibody …