The immune epitope database and analysis resource in epitope discovery and synthetic vaccine design

W Fleri, S Paul, SK Dhanda, S Mahajan, X Xu… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The task of epitope discovery and vaccine design is increasingly reliant on bioinformatics
analytic tools and access to depositories of curated data relevant to immune reactions and …

Tumor neoantigens: building a framework for personalized cancer immunotherapy

MM Gubin, MN Artyomov, ER Mardis… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
It is now well established that the immune system can recognize developing cancers and
that therapeutic manipulation of immunity can induce tumor regression. The capacity to …

A transformer-based model to predict peptide–HLA class I binding and optimize mutated peptides for vaccine design

Y Chu, Y Zhang, Q Wang, L Zhang, X Wang… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) can recognize and bind foreign peptides to present them to
specialized immune cells, then initiate an immune response. Computational prediction of the …

Improved methods for predicting peptide binding affinity to MHC class II molecules

KK Jensen, M Andreatta, P Marcatili, S Buus… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC‐II) molecules are expressed on the surface
of professional antigen‐presenting cells where they display peptides to T helper cells, which …

T cell epitope predictions

B Peters, M Nielsen, A Sette - Annual Review of Immunology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Throughout the body, T cells monitor MHC-bound ligands expressed on the surface of
essentially all cell types. MHC ligands that trigger a T cell immune response are referred to …

Peptide-based vaccines for tuberculosis

W Gong, C Pan, P Cheng, J Wang, G Zhao… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. As a
result of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the global TB mortality rate in …

A comprehensive review and performance evaluation of bioinformatics tools for HLA class I peptide-binding prediction

S Mei, F Li, A Leier, TT Marquez-Lago… - Briefings in …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Human leukocyte antigen class I (HLA-I) molecules are encoded by major histocompatibility
complex (MHC) class I loci in humans. The binding and interaction between HLA-I …

TepiTool: a pipeline for computational prediction of T cell epitope candidates

S Paul, J Sidney, A Sette… - Current protocols in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Computational prediction of T cell epitope candidates is currently being used in several
applications including vaccine discovery studies, development of diagnostics, and removal …

Machine learning techniques for the prediction of B-cell and T-cell epitopes as potential vaccine targets with a specific focus on SARS-CoV-2 pathogen: A review

SNH Bukhari, A Jain, E Haq, A Mehbodniya, J Webber - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
The only part of an antigen (a protein molecule found on the surface of a pathogen) that is
composed of epitopes specific to T and B cells is recognized by the human immune system …

Immunoinformatics-aided design of a peptide based multiepitope vaccine targeting glycoproteins and membrane proteins against monkeypox virus

N Akhtar, V Kaushik, RK Grewal, AK Wani… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Monkeypox is a self-limiting zoonotic viral disease and causes smallpox-like symptoms. The
disease has a case fatality ratio of 3–6% and, recently, a multi-country outbreak of the …