Applications and challenges in designing VHH-based bispecific antibodies: leveraging machine learning solutions

M Mullin, J McClory, W Haynes, J Grace, N Robertson… - Mabs, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The development of bispecific antibodies that bind at least two different targets relies on
bringing together multiple binding domains with different binding properties and biophysical …

An integrated technology for quantitative wide mutational scanning of human antibody Fab libraries

BM Petersen, MB Kirby, KM Chrispens, OM Irvin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Antibodies are engineerable quantities in medicine. Learning antibody molecular
recognition would enable the in silico design of high affinity binders against nearly any …

Antibody domainbed: Out-of-distribution generalization in therapeutic protein design

N Tagasovska, JW Park, M Kirchmeyer, NC Frey… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Machine learning (ML) has demonstrated significant promise in accelerating drug design.
Active ML-guided optimization of therapeutic molecules typically relies on a surrogate model …

[HTML][HTML] Biophysics-based protein language models for protein engineering

S Gelman, B Johnson, C Freschlin, S D'Costa, A Gitter… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Protein language models trained on evolutionary data have emerged as powerful tools for
predictive problems involving protein sequence, structure, and function. However, these …

Toward enhancement of antibody thermostability and affinity by computational design in the absence of antigen

M Hutchinson, JA Ruffolo, N Haskins, M Iannotti… - mAbs, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Over the past two decades, therapeutic antibodies have emerged as a rapidly expanding
domain within the field of biologics. In silico tools that can streamline the process of antibody …

[HTML][HTML] Contextual protein and antibody encodings from equivariant graph transformers

SP Mahajan, JA Ruffolo, JJ Gray - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The optimal residue identity at each position in a protein is determined by its structural,
evolutionary, and functional context. We seek to learn the representation space of the …

T-cell receptor structures and predictive models reveal comparable alpha and beta chain structural diversity despite differing genetic complexity

NP Quast, B Guloglu, B Abanades, V Karuppiah… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
T-cell receptor (TCR) structures are currently under-utilised in early-stage drug discovery
and repertoire-scale informatics. Here, we leverage a large dataset of solved TCR structures …

FLAb: Benchmarking deep learning methods for antibody fitness prediction

M Chungyoun, JA Ruffolo, JJ Gray - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The successful application of machine learning in therapeutic antibody design relies heavily
on the ability of models to accurately represent the sequence-structure-function landscape …

Baselining the Buzz. Trastuzumab-HER2 Affinity, and Beyond!

L Chinery, AM Hummer, BB Mehta, R Akbar, P Rawat… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
There is currently considerable interest in the field of de novo antibody design, and deep
learning techniques are now regularly applied to optimise antibody properties such as …

Training data composition determines machine learning generalization and biological rule discovery

E Ursu, A Minnegalieva, P Rawat, M Chernigovskaya… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Supervised machine learning models rely on training datasets with positive (target class)
and negative examples. Therefore, the composition of the training dataset has a direct …