TY - JOUR
T1 - EPSVR and EPMeta
T2 - Prediction of antigenic epitopes using support vector regression and multiple server results
AU - Liang, Shide
AU - Zheng, Dandan
AU - Standley, Daron M.
AU - Yao, Bo
AU - Zacharias, Martin
AU - Zhang, Chi
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported by funding under the Sixth Research Framework Programme of the European Union (FP6 STREP "BacAbs", ref. LSHB-CT-2006-037325). Calculations were performed in part using computational resources of the CLAMV (Computational Laboratories for Analysis, Modeling and Visualization) at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany.
PY - 2010/7/16
Y1 - 2010/7/16
N2 - Background: Accurate prediction of antigenic epitopes is important for immunologic research and medical applications, but it is still an open problem in bioinformatics. The case for discontinuous epitopes is even worse - currently there are only a few discontinuous epitope prediction servers available, though discontinuous peptides constitute the majority of all B-cell antigenic epitopes. The small number of structures for antigen-antibody complexes limits the development of reliable discontinuous epitope prediction methods and an unbiased benchmark to evaluate developed methods.Results: In this work, we present two novel server applications for discontinuous epitope prediction: EPSVR and EPMeta, where EPMeta is a meta server. EPSVR, EPMeta, and datasets are available at http://sysbio.unl.edu/services.Conclusion: The server application for discontinuous epitope prediction, EPSVR, uses a Support Vector Regression (SVR) method to integrate six scoring terms. Furthermore, we combined EPSVR with five existing epitope prediction servers to construct EPMeta. All methods were benchmarked by our curated independent test set, in which all antigens had no complex structures with the antibody, and their epitopes were identified by various biochemical experiments. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of EPSVR was 0.597, higher than that of any other existing single server, and EPMeta had a better performance than any single server - with an AUC of 0.638, significantly higher than PEPITO and Disctope (p-value < 0.05).
AB - Background: Accurate prediction of antigenic epitopes is important for immunologic research and medical applications, but it is still an open problem in bioinformatics. The case for discontinuous epitopes is even worse - currently there are only a few discontinuous epitope prediction servers available, though discontinuous peptides constitute the majority of all B-cell antigenic epitopes. The small number of structures for antigen-antibody complexes limits the development of reliable discontinuous epitope prediction methods and an unbiased benchmark to evaluate developed methods.Results: In this work, we present two novel server applications for discontinuous epitope prediction: EPSVR and EPMeta, where EPMeta is a meta server. EPSVR, EPMeta, and datasets are available at http://sysbio.unl.edu/services.Conclusion: The server application for discontinuous epitope prediction, EPSVR, uses a Support Vector Regression (SVR) method to integrate six scoring terms. Furthermore, we combined EPSVR with five existing epitope prediction servers to construct EPMeta. All methods were benchmarked by our curated independent test set, in which all antigens had no complex structures with the antibody, and their epitopes were identified by various biochemical experiments. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of EPSVR was 0.597, higher than that of any other existing single server, and EPMeta had a better performance than any single server - with an AUC of 0.638, significantly higher than PEPITO and Disctope (p-value < 0.05).
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U2 - 10.1186/1471-2105-11-381
DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-11-381
M3 - Article
C2 - 20637083
AN - SCOPUS:77954543849
VL - 11
JO - BMC Bioinformatics
JF - BMC Bioinformatics
SN - 1471-2105
M1 - 381
ER -