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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2022

DLAB: deep learning methods for structure-based virtual screening of antibodies.

Constantin Schneider, Andrew Buchanan, Bruck Taddese, Charlotte M Deane

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Constantin SchneiderDepartment of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3LB, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2579-0307
Andrew BuchananAntibody Discovery & Protein Engineering, R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, CB2 0AA, UK.
Bruck TaddeseDiscovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, CB2 0AA, UK.
Charlotte M DeaneDepartment of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3LB, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1388-2252
AstraZeneca (United Kingdom) · GBUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

AstraZenecaEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)Medical Research Council (MRC) EP/L016044/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationAntibodies are one of the most important classes of pharmaceuticals, with over 80 approved molecules currently in use against a wide variety of diseases. The drug discovery process for antibody therapeutic candidates however is time- and cost-intensive and heavily reliant on in vivo and in vitro high throughput screens. Here, we introduce a framework for structure-based deep learning for antibodies (DLAB) which can virtually screen putative binding antibodies against antigen targets of interest. DLAB is built to be able to predict antibody-antigen binding for antigens with no known antibody binders.

resultsWe demonstrate that DLAB can be used both to improve antibody-antigen docking and structure-based virtual screening of antibody drug candidates. DLAB enables improved pose ranking for antibody docking experiments as well as selection of antibody-antigen pairings for which accurate poses are generated and correctly ranked. We also show that DLAB can identify binding antibodies against specific antigens in a case study. Our results demonstrate the promise of deep learning methods for structure-based virtual screening of antibodies. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The DLAB source code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/oxpig/dlab-public. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Deep LearningAntibodiesAntigensSoftwareAntibodiesAntigens

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