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ReviewBriefings in bioinformatics2020

Computational approaches to therapeutic antibody design: established methods and emerging trends.

Richard A Norman, Francesco Ambrosetti, Alexandre M J J Bonvin, Lucy J Colwell, Sebastian Kelm, Sandeep Kumar, Konrad Krawczyk

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In one paragraph

Review in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
112citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
15.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

112 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 228 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Richard A NormanPistoia Alliance Inc., USA.
Francesco AmbrosettiSapienza University, Italy.
Alexandre M J J BonvinUtrecht University, Netherlands.
Lucy J ColwellCambridge University, UK.
Sebastian KelmUCB Pharma, UK.
Sandeep KumarBoehringer Ingelheim, USA.
Konrad KrawczykNaturalAntibody, Germany.
Boehringer Ingelheim (United States) · USFriedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance · USSapienza University of Rome · ITUCB Pharma (United Kingdom) · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GBUtrecht University · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibodies are proteins that recognize the molecular surfaces of potentially noxious molecules to mount an adaptive immune response or, in the case of autoimmune diseases, molecules that are part of healthy cells and tissues. Due to their binding versatility, antibodies are currently the largest class of biotherapeutics, with five monoclonal antibodies ranked in the top 10 blockbuster drugs. Computational advances in protein modelling and design can have a tangible impact on antibody-based therapeutic development. Antibody-specific computational protocols currently benefit from an increasing volume of data provided by next generation sequencing and application to related drug modalities based on traditional antibodies, such as nanobodies. Here we present a structured overview of available databases, methods and emerging trends in computational antibody analysis and contextualize them towards the engineering of candidate antibody therapeutics.

Indexed as

Antibodies, MonoclonalComputational BiologyDatabases, ProteinMolecular Docking SimulationProtein ConformationAntibodies, Monoclonalantibody–antigen complexesdatabasesdockinghomology modellingtherapeutic antibodies

Identifiers

PMID31626279
PMCPMC7947987
OpenAlexW2980681402

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