The rise of taxon-specific epitope predictors

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.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbae092
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies > Applied AI & Robotics
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Centre for Artifical Intelligence Research and Application
Additional Information: Copyright © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
Uncontrolled Keywords: data mining,epitope prediction,machine learning,phylogeny-aware modelling,Information Systems,Molecular Biology
Publication ISSN: 1477-4054
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2024 13:41
Date Deposited: 19 Mar 2024 16:38
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2024-03-16
Published Online Date: 2024-03-16
Accepted Date: 2024-02-18
Authors: Campelo, Felipe (ORCID Profile 0000-0001-8432-4325)
Lobo, Francisco P.

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