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Published on: October 25, 2016
BERTrand-peptide:TCR binding prediction using Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers augmented with
Alexander Myronov1,2, Giovanni Mazzocco2, Paulina Król2
1Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
Motivation:
The advent of T-cell receptor (TCR) sequencing experiments allowed for a significant increase in the amount of peptide:TCR binding data available and a number of machine-learning models appeared in recent years. High-quality prediction models for a fixed epitope sequence are feasible, provided enough known binding TCR sequences are available. However, their performance drops significantly for previously unseen peptides.
Results:
We prepare the dataset of known peptide:TCR binders and augment it with negative decoys created using healthy donors' T-cell repertoires. We employ deep learning methods commonly applied in Natural Language Processing to train part a peptide:TCR binding model with a degree of cross-peptide generalization (0.69 AUROC). We demonstrate that BERTrand outperforms the published methods when evaluated on peptide sequences not used during model training.
Availability And Implementation:
The datasets and the code for model training are available at https://github.com/SFGLab/bertrand.
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