Automated benchmarking of peptide-MHC class I binding predictions

Thomas Trolle, Imir G. Metushi, Jason Greenbaum, Yohan Kim, John Sidney, Ole Lund, Alessandro Sette, Bjoern Peters, Morten Nielsen

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    Abstract

    Motivation: Numerous in silico methods predicting peptide binding to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules have been developed over the last decades. However, the multitude of available prediction tools makes it non-trivial for the end-user to select which tool to use for a given task. To provide a solid basis on which to compare different prediction tools, we here describe a framework for the automated benchmarking of peptide-MHC class I binding prediction tools. The framework runs weekly benchmarks on data that are newly entered into the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB), giving the public access to frequent, up-to-date performance evaluations of all participating tools. To overcome potential selection bias in the data included in the IEDB, a strategy was implemented that suggests a set of peptides for which different prediction methods give divergent predictions as to their binding capability. Upon experimental binding validation, these peptides entered the benchmark study.
    Results: The benchmark has run for 15 weeks and includes evaluation of 44 datasets covering 17 MHC alleles and more than 4000 peptide-MHC binding measurements. Inspection of the results allows the end-user to make educated selections between participating tools. Of the four participating servers, NetMHCpan performed the best, followed by ANN, SMM and finally ARB.
    Availability and implementation: Up-to-date performance evaluations of each server can be found
    online at http://tools.iedb.org/auto_bench/mhci/weekly. All prediction tool developers are invited to
    participate in the benchmark. Sign-up instructions are available at http://tools.iedb.org/auto_bench/
    mhci/join.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalBioinformatics
    Volume31
    Issue number13
    Pages (from-to)2174-2181
    Number of pages8
    ISSN1367-4803
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

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