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ArticleScience advances2024

Self-supervised learning of T cell receptor sequences exposes core properties for T cell membership.

Romi Goldner Kabeli, Sarit Zevin, Avital Abargel, Alona Zilberberg, Sol Efroni

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Article in Science advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Romi Goldner KabeliThe Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-1752-0478
Sarit ZevinThe Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Avital AbargelThe Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.ORCID 0009-0005-2105-1661
Alona ZilberbergThe Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Sol EfroniThe Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-7927-6349

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire is an extraordinarily diverse collection of TCRs essential for maintaining the body's homeostasis and response to threats. In this study, we compiled an extensive dataset of more than 4200 bulk TCR repertoire samples, encompassing 221,176,713 sequences, alongside 6,159,652 single-cell TCR sequences from over 400 samples. From this dataset, we then selected a representative subset of 5 million bulk sequences and 4.2 million single-cell sequences to train two specialized Transformer-based language models for bulk (CVC) and single-cell (scCVC) TCR repertoires, respectively. We show that these models successfully capture TCR core qualities, such as sharing, gene composition, and single-cell properties. These qualities are emergent in the encoded TCR latent space and enable classification into TCR-based qualities such as public sequences. These models demonstrate the potential of Transformer-based language models in TCR downstream applications.

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Receptors, Antigen, T-CellT-LymphocytesComputational BiologyHumansSingle-Cell AnalysisSupervised Machine LearningReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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PMID38669334
PMCPMC11809652

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