SVM based method for predicting HLA-DRB1*0401 binding peptides in an antigen sequence

  • Authors:
  • Manoj Bhasin;G. P. S. Raghava

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39A, Chandigarh, India;Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39A, Chandigarh, India

  • Venue:
  • Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Summary: Prediction of peptides binding with MHC class II allele HLA-DRB1*0401 can effectively reduce the number of experiments required for identifying helper T cell epitopes. This paper describes support vector machine (SVM) based method developed for identifying HLA-DRB1*0401 binding peptides in an antigenic sequence. SVM was trained and tested on large and clean data set consisting of 567 binders and equal number of non-binders. The accuracy of the method was 86% when evaluated through 5-fold cross-validation technique. Available: A web server HLA-DR4Pred based on above approach is available at http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/hladr4pred/ and http://bioinformatics.uams.edu/mirror/hladr4pred/ (Mirror Site). Supplementary information: http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/hladr4pred/info.html