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ArticleScientific reports2016

sNebula, a network-based algorithm to predict binding between human leukocyte antigens and peptides.

Heng Luo, Hao Ye, Hui Wen Ng, Sugunadevi Sakkiah, Donna L Mendrick, Huixiao Hong

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Heng LuoNational Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Rd, Jefferson, AR 72079 USA.
Hao YeNational Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Rd, Jefferson, AR 72079 USA.
Hui Wen NgNational Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Rd, Jefferson, AR 72079 USA.
Sugunadevi SakkiahNational Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Rd, Jefferson, AR 72079 USA.
Donna L MendrickNational Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Rd, Jefferson, AR 72079 USA.
Huixiao HongNational Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Rd, Jefferson, AR 72079 USA.
United States Food and Drug Administration · USNational Center for Toxicological Research · US

Funding

Understanding Hesitant AdoptersP20GM103429 · NIGMS · UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOR MED SCIS · PI Lawrence E Cornett, JERRY WARE · 2012 to 2026
$60.9M
VIRULENCE MECHANISMS IN ESCHERICHIA COLIP20RR016460 · NCRR · UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOR MED SCIS · PI MURRAY, RICHARD F · 2001 to 2011
$33.1M
NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR016460NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103429
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the binding between human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) and peptides is important to understand the functioning of the immune system. Since it is time-consuming and costly to measure the binding between large numbers of HLAs and peptides, computational methods including machine learning models and network approaches have been developed to predict HLA-peptide binding. However, there are several limitations for the existing methods. We developed a network-based algorithm called sNebula to address these limitations. We curated qualitative Class I HLA-peptide binding data and demonstrated the prediction performance of sNebula on this dataset using leave-one-out cross-validation and five-fold cross-validations. This algorithm can predict not only peptides of different lengths and different types of HLAs, but also the peptides or HLAs that have no existing binding data. We believe sNebula is an effective method to predict HLA-peptide binding and thus improve our understanding of the immune system.

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AlgorithmsComputational BiologyHistocompatibility Antigens Class IHLA AntigensHumansPeptidesProtein BindingReproducibility of ResultsHistocompatibility Antigens Class IHLA AntigensPeptides

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PMID27558848
PMCPMC4997263
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