Predicting MHC I restricted T cell epitopes in mice with NAP-CNB, a novel online tool

Lack of a dedicated integrated pipeline for neoantigen discovery in mice hinders cancer immunotherapy research. Novel sequential approaches through recurrent neural networks can improve the accuracy of T-cell epitope binding affinity predictions in mice, and a simplified variant selection process ca...

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Autores: Wert Carvajal, Carlos, Sánchez García, Rubén, Macías, José R, Sanz Pamplona, Rebeca, Méndez Pérez, Almudena, Alemany Bonastre, Ramon, Veiga, Esteban, Sorzano, Carlos Óscar S., Muñoz Barrutia, Arrate
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/178832
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/178832
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Càncer
Immunoteràpia
Cèl·lules T
Cancer
Immunotherapy
T cells
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Sumario:Lack of a dedicated integrated pipeline for neoantigen discovery in mice hinders cancer immunotherapy research. Novel sequential approaches through recurrent neural networks can improve the accuracy of T-cell epitope binding affinity predictions in mice, and a simplified variant selection process can reduce operational requirements. We have developed a web server tool (NAP-CNB) for a full and automatic pipeline based on recurrent neural networks, to predict putative neoantigens from tumoral RNA sequencing reads. The developed software can estimate H-2 peptide ligands, with an AUC comparable or superior to state-of-the-art methods, directly from tumor samples. As a proof-of-concept, we used the B16 melanoma model to test the system's predictive capabilities, and we report its putative neoantigens. NAP-CNB web server is freely available at http://biocomp.cnb.csic.es/NeoantigensApp/ with scripts and datasets accessible through the download section.