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The dawn of biophysical representations in computational immunology.

Eric Wilson, Akshansh Kaushik, Soumya Dutta, Abhishek Singharoy

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Review in QRB discovery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Eric WilsonDepartment of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Akshansh KaushikSchool of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Soumya DuttaBiodesign Institute, Center for Applied Structural Discovery.
Abhishek SingharoyBiodesign Institute, Center for Applied Structural Discovery.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9000-2397

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computational immunology has been the breeding ground of some of the best bioinformatics work of the day. By melding diverse data types, these approaches have been successful in associating genotypes with phenotypes. However, the representations (or spaces) in which these associations are mapped have primarily been constructed from some omics-oriented sequence data typically derived from high-throughput experiments. In this perspective, we highlight the importance of biophysical representations for performing the genotype-phenotype map. We contend that using biophysical representations reduces the dimensionality of a search problem, dramatically expedites the algorithm, and more importantly, offers physical interpretability to the classes of clustered sequences across different layers of complexity - molecular, cellular, or macro-level. Such biophysical interpretations offer a firm basis for the future of bioengineering and cell-based therapies.

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BioinformaticsComputational biophysicsimmunological, and structural biologyMolecularVaccine development

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PMID40735188
PMCPMC12304778

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