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NeoaPred: a deep-learning framework for predicting immunogenic neoantigen based on surface and structural features of
Dawei Jiang1, Binbin Xi1, Wenchong Tan1
1School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Motivation:
Neoantigens, derived from somatic mutations in cancer cells, can elicit anti-tumor immune responses when presented to autologous T cells by human leukocyte antigen. Identifying immunogenic neoantigens is crucial for cancer immunotherapy development. However, the accuracy of current bioinformatic methods remains unsatisfactory. Surface and structural features of peptide-HLA class I (pHLA-I) complexes offer valuable insight into the immunogenicity of neoantigens.
Results:
We present NeoaPred, a deep-learning framework for neoantigen prediction. NeoaPred accurately constructs pHLA-I complex structures, with 82.37% of the predicted structures showing an RMSD of < 1 Å. Using these structures, NeoaPred integrates differences in surface, structural, and atom group features between the mutant peptide and its wild-type counterpart to predict a foreignness score. This foreignness score is an effective factor for neoantigen prediction, achieving an AUROC (Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve) of 0.81 and an AUPRC (Area Under the Precision-Recall Curve) of 0.54 in the test set, outperforming existing methods.
Availability And Implementation:
The source code is released under an Apache v2.0 license and is available at the GitHub repository (https://github.com/Dulab2020/NeoaPred).
