HLA class I binding prediction via convolutional neural networks
@article{Vang2017HLACI, title={HLA class I binding prediction via convolutional neural networks}, author={Yeeleng Scott Vang and Xiaohui Xie}, journal={bioRxiv}, year={2017} }
Motivation : Many biological processes are governed by protein‐ligand interactions. [] Key Result Experimental results show combining the new distributed representation with our HLA‐CNN architecture achieves state‐of‐the‐art results in the majority of the latest two Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) weekly automated benchmark datasets. We further apply our model to predict binding on the human genome and identify 15 genes with potential for self binding. Availability and Implementation: Codes to generate the…
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