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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2024

The rise of taxon-specific epitope predictors.

Felipe Campelo, Francisco P Lobo

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Phylogenetic Domain Adaption for Linear B-Cell Epitope Prediction.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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Felipe CampeloAston Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Application, Aston University, Aston Triangle, B4 7ET, Birmingham, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8432-4325
Francisco P LoboDepartment of Genetics, Ecology and Evolution, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antonio Carlos 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-9671-9313

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computational predictors of immunogenic peptides, or epitopes, are traditionally built based on data from a broad range of pathogens without consideration for taxonomic information. While this approach may be reasonable if one aims to develop one-size-fits-all models, it may be counterproductive if the proteins for which the model is expected to generalize are known to come from a specific subset of phylogenetically related pathogens. There is mounting evidence that, for these cases, taxon-specific models can outperform generalist ones, even when trained with substantially smaller amounts of data. In this comment, we provide some perspective on the current state of taxon-specific modelling for the prediction of linear B-cell epitopes, and the challenges faced when building and deploying these predictors.

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PeptidesProteinsAmino Acid SequenceEpitopes, B-LymphocyteEpitopes, B-LymphocytePeptidesProteinsdata miningepitope predictionmachine learningphylogeny-aware modelling

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PMID38493292
PMCPMC10944454

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