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Application of Machine Learning Techniques in Predicting MHC Binders
Abstract
The machine learning techniques are playing a vital role in the field of immunoinformatics. In the past, a number of methods have been developed for predicting major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-binding peptides using machine learning techniques. These methods allow predicting MHC-binding peptides with high accuracy. In this chapter, we describe two machine learning technique-based methods, nHLAPred and MHC2Pred, developed for predicting MHC binders for class I and class II alleles, respectively. nHLAPred is a web server developed for predicting binders for 67 MHC class I alleles. This sever has two methods: ANNPred and ComPred. ComPred allows predicting binders for 67 MHC class I alleles, using the combined method [artificial neural network (ANN) and quantitative matrix] for 30 alleles and quantitative matrix-based method for 37 alleles. ANNPred allows prediction of binders for only 30 alleles purely based on the ANN. MHC2Pred is a support vector machine (SVM)-based method for prediction of promiscuous binders for 42 MHC class II alleles.
Affiliation(s): (3) Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
(4) UAMS, BRCII, Little Rock, AR
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology  |  Volume: 409  |  Pub. Date: Jun-21-2007  |  Page Range: 201-215  |  DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-118-9_14
Subject:  Immunology
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