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Based on the success of cancer immunotherapy, personalized cancer vaccines have recently emerged as the vanguard of oncology treatment. Because antigen presentation on MHC class I (MHC-I) is key to the adaptive immune response to cancerous cells, it is critical to have highly predictive computational methods to model which peptides are presented on MHC-I. Here, we introduce HLApollo, a transformer-based model with end-to-end treatment of MHC-I sequence, deconvolution of multi-allelic data, and ligand-flanking sequences. We develop negative-set switching, a novel training strategy that greatly reduces overfitting, which is key to HLApollo’s performance, leading to increases of 20.19% and 4.1% in average precision (AP) vs. next best model on MHC-I presentation and immunogenicity, respectively. Incorporating protein features derived from protein language models yielded further gains and reduced the need for gene expression measurements. We achieve excellent pan-allelic generalization, and create a framework for estimating performance on untrained alleles. This guides the clinical use of HLApollo, where rare alleles may be observed – particularly for individuals from underrepresented ancestries. Our work uses all facets of available MHC-I data to develop a highly accurate MHC-I presentation predictor that meaningfully improves immunogenicity prediction and allelic coverage, important for clinical applications of personalized neoantigen vaccines.
neoepitope, ligandome, neoantigen, ligand presentation, peptide presentation, benchmark, HLApollo, MHC-I, transformer, cancer, immunotherapy, MHC, personalized cancer vaccine
neoepitope, ligandome, neoantigen, ligand presentation, peptide presentation, benchmark, HLApollo, MHC-I, transformer, cancer, immunotherapy, MHC, personalized cancer vaccine
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