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T cell receptors (TCRs) are critical components of adaptive immune systems, responsible for responding to threats by recognizing epitope sequences presented on host cell surface. Computational prediction of binding affinity between TCRs and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-31 Pengfei Zhang , Seojin Bang , Heewook Lee

An accurate binding affinity prediction between T-cell receptors and epitopes contributes decisively to develop successful immunotherapy strategies. Some state-of-the-art computational methods implement deep learning techniques by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Etienne Goffinet , Raghvendra Mall , Ankita Singh , Rahul Kaushik , Filippo Castiglione

Identifying T-cell receptors (TCRs) that interact with antigenic peptides provides the technical basis for developing vaccines and immunotherapies. The emergent deep learning methods excel at learning antigen binding patterns from known…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-28 Jiangbin Zheng , Qianhui Xu , Ruichen Xia , Stan Z. Li

Understanding the binding specificity between T-cell receptors (TCRs) and peptide-major histocompatibility complexes (pMHCs) is central to immunotherapy and vaccine development. However, current predictive models struggle with…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-29 Cong Qi , Hanzhang Fang , Siqi jiang , Tianxing Hu , Zhi Wei

It has been verified that only a small fraction of the neoantigens presented by MHC class I molecules on the cell surface can elicit T cells. The limitation can be attributed to the binding specificity of T cell receptor (TCR) to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-24 Yiming Fang , Xuejun Liu , Hui Liu

T cells monitor the health status of cells by identifying foreign peptides displayed on their surface. T-cell receptors (TCRs), which are protein complexes found on the surface of T cells, are able to bind to these peptides. This process is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-07 Ziqi Chen , Martin Renqiang Min , Hongyu Guo , Chao Cheng , Trevor Clancy , Xia Ning

T cells are central to the adaptive immune response, capable of detecting pathogenic antigens while ignoring healthy tissues with remarkable specificity and sensitivity. Quantitatively understanding how T cell receptors (TCRs) discriminate…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-25 François X. P. Bourassa , Sooraj Achar , Grégoire Altan-Bonnet , Paul François

The binding affinity between the T-cell receptors (TCRs) and antigenic peptides mainly determines immunological recognition. It is not a trivial task that T cells identify the digital sequences of peptide amino acids by simply relying on…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-14 Jin Xu , Junghyo Jo

The process of identifying and characterizing B-cell epitopes, which are the portions of antigens recognized by antibodies, is important for our understanding of the immune system, and for many applications including vaccine development,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-10 Xiao Yuan

We focus on the source-free domain adaptive object detection (SF-DAOD) problem when source data is unavailable during adaptation and the model must adapt to an unlabeled target domain. The majority of approaches for the problem employ a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Tajamul Ashraf , Janibul Bashir

T-cells play a key role in adaptive immunity by mounting specific responses against diverse pathogens. An effective binding between T-cell receptors (TCRs) and pathogen-derived peptides presented on Major Histocompatibility Complexes (MHCs)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-05 Gian Marco Visani , Michael N. Pun , Anastasia A. Minervina , Philip Bradley , Paul Thomas , Armita Nourmohammad

T cell receptors (TCRs) bind foreign or self-peptides attached to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules, and the strength of this interaction determines T cell activation. Optimizing the ability of T cells to recognize a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-23 Hanrong Chen , Arup K. Chakraborty , Mehran Kardar

The anti-cancer immune response relies on the bindings between T-cell receptors (TCRs) and antigens, which elicits adaptive immunity to eliminate tumor cells. This ability of the immune system to respond to novel various neoantigens arises…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-11 Xing Fang , Chenpeng Yu , Shiye Tian , Hui Liu

T cells are a critical component of the adaptive immune system, playing a role in infectious disease, autoimmunity, and cancer. T cell function is mediated by the T cell receptor (TCR) protein, a highly diverse receptor targeting specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Marco Garcia Noceda , Matthew T Noakes , Andrew FigPope , Daniel E Mattox , Bryan Howie , Harlan Robins

The T cell arm of the adaptive immune system provides the host protection against unknown pathogens by discriminating between host and foreign material. This discriminatory capability is achieved by the creation of a repertoire of cells…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Kevin Ng Chau , Jason T. George , José N. Onuchic , Xingcheng Lin , Herbert Levine

Designing full-length, epitope-specific TCR {\alpha}\b{eta} remains challenging due to vast sequence space, data biases and incomplete modeling of immunogenetic constraints. We present LSMTCR, a scalable multi-architecture framework that…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ruihao Zhang , Xiao Liu

A key challenge in molecular biology is to decipher the mapping of protein sequence to function. To perform this mapping requires the identification of sequence features most informative about function. Here, we quantify the amount of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-19 James Henderson , Yuta Nagano , Martina Milighetti , Andreas Tiffeau-Mayer

Computational prediction of the interaction of T cell receptors (TCRs) and their ligands is a grand challenge in immunology. Despite advances in high-throughput assays, specificity-labelled TCR data remains sparse. In other domains, the…

Researching the specificity of TCR contributes to the development of immunotherapy and provides new opportunities and strategies for personalized cancer immunotherapy. Therefore, we established a TCR generative specificity detection…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-30 Tengyao Tu , Wei Zeng , Kun Zhao , Zhenyu Zhang

T-cell receptor (TCR) interactions with antigenic peptides underpin adaptive immunity and are pivotal for personalized immunotherapy and vaccine development. Despite recent progress, computational modeling of TCR-peptide specificity remains…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-07 Yiming Wang , Weiyu Xiao , Jiangbin Zheng , Stan Z. Li
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