Artificial intelligence in early drug discovery enabling precision medicine

F Boniolo, E Dorigatti, AJ Ohnmacht… - Expert Opinion on …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Precision medicine is the concept of treating diseases based on environmental
factors, lifestyles, and molecular profiles of patients. This approach has been found to …

Immunoinformatics and epitope prediction in the age of genomic medicine

L Backert, O Kohlbacher - Genome medicine, 2015 - Springer
Immunoinformatics involves the application of computational methods to immunological
problems. Prediction of B-and T-cell epitopes has long been the focus of immunoinformatics …

Major histocompatibility complex class I binding predictions as a tool in epitope discovery

C Lundegaard, O Lund, S Buus, M Nielsen - Immunology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decade, in silico models of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I
pathway have developed significantly. Before, peptide binding could only be reliably …

State of the art and challenges in sequence based T-cell epitope prediction

C Lundegaard, I Hoof, O Lund, M Nielsen - Immunome Research, 2010 - Springer
Sequence based T-cell epitope predictions have improved immensely in the last decade.
From predictions of peptide binding to major histocompatibility complex molecules with …

POPISK: T-cell reactivity prediction using support vector machines and string kernels

CW Tung, M Ziehm, A Kämper, O Kohlbacher, SY Ho - BMC bioinformatics, 2011 - Springer
Background Accurate prediction of peptide immunogenicity and characterization of relation
between peptide sequences and peptide immunogenicity will be greatly helpful for vaccine …

Designing string-of-beads vaccines with optimal spacers

B Schubert, O Kohlbacher - Genome medicine, 2016 - Springer
String-of-beads polypeptides allow convenient delivery of epitope-based vaccines. The
success of a polypeptide relies on efficient processing: constituent epitopes need to be …

Signal peptides and trans-membrane regions are broadly immunogenic and have high CD8+ T cell epitope densities: Implications for vaccine development

R Kovjazin, I Volovitz, Y Daon, T Vider-Shalit… - Molecular …, 2011 - Elsevier
Cell mediated immune response has a major role in controlling the elimination of infectious
agents. The rational design of sub-unit peptide vaccines against intracellular pathogens or …

Computer‐aided design of T‐cell epitope‐based vaccines: addressing population coverage

P Oyarzun, B Kobe - International journal of immunogenetics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Epitope‐based vaccines (EV s) make use of short antigen‐derived peptides corresponding
to immune epitopes, which are administered to trigger a protective humoral and/or cellular …

Universal peptide vaccines–optimal peptide vaccine design based on viral sequence conservation

NC Toussaint, Y Maman, O Kohlbacher, Y Louzoun - Vaccine, 2011 - Elsevier
Rapidly mutating viruses such as the hepatitis C virus (HCV), the human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV), or influenza viruses (Flu) call for highly effective universal peptide vaccines, ie …

Models of RNA virus evolution and their roles in vaccine design

S Ojosnegros, N Beerenwinkel - Immunome research, 2010 - Springer
Viruses are fast evolving pathogens that continuously adapt to the highly variable
environments they live and reproduce in. Strategies devoted to inhibit virus replication and …