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JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 94, Issue 3, Pages 264-270Publisher
SOC BIOSCIENCE BIOENGINEERING JAPAN
DOI: 10.1263/jbb.94.264
Keywords
hidden Markov model; successive state splitting; MHC class II; binding peptides; bioinformatics
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Elucidating the interaction between major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules and antigenic peptides is fundamental to better understanding of the processes involved in immune responses and for the development of innovative immunotherapies. In the present study, hidden Markov models (HMM) were combined with the successive state splitting (SSS) algorithm for optimization of the HMM structure, to predict peptide binders to the human MHC class II molecule HLA-DRB1*0101. The predictive performance of our model (S-HMM) was compared with fully connected HMM and artificial neural network (ANN) methods using the relative operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. The S-HMM predictions had values of ROCgreater than or equal to0.85 which was at least as good, or better than the comparison methods. In addition, S-HMM is trained on positive data only and does not require exhaustive data preprocessing, such as peptide alignment. Our results demonstrated that S-HMM combines the high accuracy of predictions with the simplicity of implementation and is therefore useful for analyzing MHC class II binding peptides. In particular the S-HMM may be trained using only positive data and, the preprocessing of training data, such as peptide alignment and the selection of binding cores, is not required in this method.
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