Journal article
MuPeXI: prediction of neo-epitopes from tumor sequencing data
Department of Bio and Health Informatics, Technical University of Denmark1
Cancer Genomics, Department of Bio and Health Informatics, Technical University of Denmark2
T-cells & Cancer, Division of Immunology & Vaccinology, National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark3
Immunoinformatics and Machine Learning, Department of Bio and Health Informatics, Technical University of Denmark4
National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark5
Personalization of immunotherapies such as cancer vaccines and adoptive T cell therapy depends on identification of patient-specific neo-epitopes that can be specifically targeted. MuPeXI, the mutant peptide extractor and informer, is a program to identify tumor-specific peptides and assess their potential to be neo-epitopes.
The program input is a file with somatic mutation calls, a list of HLA types, and optionally a gene expression profile. The output is a table with all tumor-specific peptides derived from nucleotide substitutions, insertions, and deletions, along with comprehensive annotation, including HLA binding and similarity to normal peptides.
The peptides are sorted according to a priority score which is intended to roughly predict immunogenicity. We applied MuPeXI to three tumors for which predicted MHC-binding peptides had been screened for T cell reactivity, and found that MuPeXI was able to prioritize immunogenic peptides with an area under the curve of 0.63.
Compared to other available tools, MuPeXI provides more information and is easier to use. MuPeXI is available as stand-alone software and as a web server at http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/MuPeXI .
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Year: | 2017 |
Pages: | 1123-1130 |
ISSN: | 14320851 and 03407004 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00262-017-2001-3 |
ORCIDs: | 0000-0002-1831-6746 , Eklund, Aron Charles , Nielsen, Morten and Hadrup, Sine Reker |