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ArticleCell systems2019

Quantification of Uncertainty in Peptide-MHC Binding Prediction Improves High-Affinity Peptide Selection for Therapeutic Design.

Haoyang Zeng, David K Gifford

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Article in Cell systems, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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40citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Haoyang ZengComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
David K GiffordComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: gifford@mit.edu.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Deep learning based antibody design using high-throughput affinity testing of synthetic sequencesR01CA218094 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GIFFORD, DAVID K · 2018 to 2024
$2.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA218094
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The computational identification of peptides that can bind the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) with high affinity is an essential step in developing personal immunotherapies and vaccines. We introduce PUFFIN, a deep residual network-based computational approach that quantifies uncertainty in peptide-MHC affinity prediction that arises from observational noise and the lack of relevant training examples. With PUFFIN's uncertainty metrics, we define binding likelihood, the probability a peptide binds to a given MHC allele at a specified affinity threshold. Compared to affinity point estimates, we find that binding likelihood correlates better with the observed affinity and reduces false positives in high-affinity peptide design. When applied to examine an existing peptide vaccine, PUFFIN identifies an alternative vaccine formulation with higher binding likelihood. PUFFIN is freely available for download at http://github.com/gifford-lab/PUFFIN.

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AlgorithmsComputational BiologyDatabases, ProteinHistocompatibility Antigens Class IHumansMajor Histocompatibility ComplexPeptidesProtein BindingSoftwareUncertaintyHistocompatibility Antigens Class IPeptidesbinding affinitydeep learningmajor histocompatibility complexMHCneoantigenpeptide presentationuncertaintyvaccine

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PMID31176619
PMCPMC6715517
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