BMC Bioinformatics

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Open Access Research article

Derivation of an amino acid similarity matrix for peptide:MHC binding and its application as a Bayesian prior

Yohan Kim1, John Sidney1, Clemencia Pinilla2, Alessandro Sette1 and Bjoern Peters1*

Author Affiliations

1 Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, USA

2 Immunology, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, San Diego, California, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:394 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-394

Published: 30 November 2009

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Additional file 1:

Raw binding affinity data of combinatorial peptide scanning library against the 24 MHC molecules. Binding affinity measurements of each peptide library are shown for all 24 MHC molecules. Each row represents a peptide library, which corresponds to a fixed residue at a given position. Columns span the 24 MHC molecules.

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Additional file 2:

Peptide:MHC Binding Energy Covariance Matrix. This covariance matrix was calculated from the raw binding in Dataset S1. The symmetric matrix has dimensions of 20 × 20. Each entry represents how two residues contribute to binding affinities with respect to each other. A positive value indicates they are alike; a negative value indicates they are different.

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Additional file 3:

Prediction performances of NetMHC, SMM, SMMPMBEC, and SMMBLOSUM. This is an expanded version of benchmark results shown in the manuscript by including prediction performances of SMMBLOSUM.

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