Methods and systems for improved major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-peptide binding prediction of neoepitopes using a recurrent neural network encoder and attention weighting

    公开(公告)号:US11557375B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-17

    申请号:US17059157

    申请日:2019-08-14

    申请人: NantOmics, LLC

    摘要: Techniques are provided for predicting MHC-peptide binding affinity. A plurality of training peptide sequences is obtained, and a neural network model is trained to predict MHC-peptide binding affinity using the training peptide sequences. An encoder of the neural network model comprising an RNN is configured to process an input training peptide sequence to generate a fixed-dimension encoding output by applying a final hidden state of the RNN at intermediate state outputs of the RNN to generate attention weighted outputs, and linearly combining the attention weighted outputs. A fully connected layer following the encoder is configured to process the fixed-dimension encoding output to generate an MHC-peptide binding affinity prediction output. A computing device is configured to use the trained neural network to predict MHC-peptide binding affinity for a test peptide sequence.