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ANARCII enables alignment-free antigen receptor numbering using a generalised language model.

Alexander Greenshields-Watson1, Parth Agarwal1, Sarah A Robinson1

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A new method called ANARCII provides accurate antigen receptor numbering without alignment. This Seq2Seq language model approach improves consistency and handles diverse antibody and T cell receptor sequences effectively.

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Area of Science:

  • Immunoinformatics
  • Computational Biology
  • Structural Biology

Background:

  • Antigen receptor numbering is crucial for identifying antibody and T cell receptor binding sites.
  • Current methods rely on sequence alignment, which can be inconsistent or fail for rare species/formats.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce ANARCII, a novel alignment-free method for antigen receptor numbering.
  • To improve the accuracy, consistency, and robustness of antigen receptor sequence analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Development of ANARCII, a Seq2Seq language model-based tool.
  • Elimination of the need for sequence alignment to reference sets.
  • Implementation of a lightweight architecture for high-throughput processing.

Main Results:

  • ANARCII achieves more consistent numbering of key receptor regions.
  • The method demonstrates robustness to sequence truncations and generalizes to unseen species.
  • High processing speed: 90,000 sequences per minute on a high-end GPU.

Conclusions:

  • ANARCII offers a superior alternative to alignment-based numbering methods.
  • Enables numbering of a wider range of antibody-like sequences and facilitates comparative analysis.
  • Provides better recovery of full-length regions from existing databases.