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ArticleNature communications2024

Designing meaningful continuous representations of T cell receptor sequences with deep generative models.

Allen Y Leary, Darius Scott, Namita T Gupta, Janelle C Waite, Dimitris Skokos, Gurinder S Atwal, Peter G Hawkins

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Allen Y LearyRegeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., 777 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, USA. allen.leary@regeneron.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-6546-2237
Darius ScottRegeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., 777 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-4158-0045
Namita T GuptaRegeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., 777 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4517-1546
Janelle C WaiteRegeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., 777 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9494-4760
Dimitris SkokosRegeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., 777 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1196-3139
Gurinder S AtwalRegeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., 777 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, USA.
Peter G HawkinsRegeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., 777 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, USA. peter.hawkins@regeneron.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2109-9938

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T Cell Receptor (TCR) antigen binding underlies a key mechanism of the adaptive immune response yet the vast diversity of TCRs and the complexity of protein interactions limits our ability to build useful low dimensional representations of TCRs. To address the current limitations in TCR analysis we develop a capacity-controlled disentangling variational autoencoder trained using a dataset of approximately 100 million TCR sequences, that we name TCR-VALID. We design TCR-VALID such that the model representations are low-dimensional, continuous, disentangled, and sufficiently informative to provide high-quality TCR sequence de novo generation. We thoroughly quantify these properties of the representations, providing a framework for future protein representation learning in low dimensions. The continuity of TCR-VALID representations allows fast and accurate TCR clustering and is benchmarked against other state-of-the-art TCR clustering tools and pre-trained language models.

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Receptors, Antigen, T-CellAlgorithmsAmino Acid SequenceCluster AnalysisComputational BiologyDeep LearningHumansReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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PMID38769289
PMCPMC11106309

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