Immune system simulation online

Nicolas Rapin; Ole Lund; Filippo Castiglione

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr335

Immune system simulation online

Nicolas Rapin, Ole Lund, Filippo Castiglione

National Research Council of Italy

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MOTIVATION: The recognition of antigenic peptides is a major event of an immune response. In current mesoscopic-scale simulators of the immune system, this crucial step has been modeled in a very approximated way. RESULTS: We have equipped an agent-based model of the immune system with immuno-informatics methods to allow the simulation of the cardinal events of the antigenic recognition, going from single peptides to whole proteomes. The recognition process accounts for B cell-epitopes prediction through Parker-scale affinity estimation, class I and II HLA peptide prediction and binding through position-specific scoring matrices based on information from known HLA epitopes prediction tools, and TCR binding to HLA–peptide complex calculated as the averaged sum of a residue–residue contact potential. These steps are executed for all lymphocytes agents encountering the antigen in a wide-reaching Monte Carlo simulation. AVAILABILITY: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/C-ImmSim-10.1/ CONTACT: [email protected]

Original language	English
Journal	Bioinformatics
Volume	27
Issue number	14
Pages (from-to)	2013-2014
ISSN	1367-4803
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btr335
Publication status	Published - 2011

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