[HTML][HTML] Rapid scoring of genes in microbial pan-genome-wide association studies with Scoary

O Brynildsrud, J Bohlin, L Scheffer, V Eldholm - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become indispensable in human medicine
and genomics, but very few have been carried out on bacteria. Here we introduce Scoary, …

In silico proof of principle of machine learning-based antibody design at unconstrained scale

…, CR Weber, M Widrich, R Frank, M Pavlović, L Scheffer… - MAbs, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Generative machine learning (ML) has been postulated to become a major driver in the
computational design of antigen-specific monoclonal antibodies (mAb). However, efforts to …

[PDF][PDF] A compact vocabulary of paratope-epitope interactions enables predictability of antibody-antigen binding

…, I Snapkov, A Slabodkin, CR Weber, L Scheffer… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
Antibody-antigen binding relies on the specific interaction of amino acids at the paratope-epitope
interface. The predictability of antibody-antigen binding is a prerequisite for de novo …

The immuneML ecosystem for machine learning analysis of adaptive immune receptor repertoires

M Pavlović, L Scheffer, K Motwani, C Kanduri… - Nature Machine …, 2021 - nature.com
Adaptive immune receptor repertoires (AIRR) are key targets for biomedical research as they
record past and ongoing adaptive immune responses. The capacity of machine learning (…

[HTML][HTML] Whole-genome sequencing and antimicrobial resistance in Brucella melitensis from a Norwegian perspective

TB Johansen, L Scheffer, VK Jensen, J Bohlin… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Brucellosis is a rarely encountered infection in Norway. The aim of this study was to explore
all Brucella melitensis isolates collected in Norway from 1999 to 2016 in relation to origin of …

Unconstrained generation of synthetic antibody–antigen structures to guide machine learning methodology for antibody specificity prediction

…, A Slabodkin, M Chernigovskaya, L Scheffer… - Nature Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning (ML) is a key technology for accurate prediction of antibody–antigen
binding. Two orthogonal problems hinder the application of ML to antibody-specificity …

Individualized VDJ recombination predisposes the available Ig sequence space

…, I Mikocziova, R Akbar, L Scheffer… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
The process of recombination between variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J) immunoglobulin
(Ig) gene segments determines an individual's naive Ig repertoire and, consequently, (…

Profiling the baseline performance and limits of machine learning models for adaptive immune receptor repertoire classification

C Kanduri, M Pavlović, L Scheffer, K Motwani… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Machine learning (ML) methodology development for the classification of
immune states in adaptive immune receptor repertoires (AIRRs) has seen a recent surge of …

One billion synthetic 3D-antibody-antigen complexes enable unconstrained machine-learning formalized investigation of antibody specificity prediction

…, M Widrich, I Snapkov, M Chernigovskaya, L Scheffer… - BioRXiV, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Machine learning (ML) is a key technology to enable accurate prediction of
antibody-antigen binding, a prerequisite for in silico vaccine and antibody design. Two orthogonal …

simAIRR: simulation of adaptive immune repertoires with realistic receptor sequence sharing for benchmarking of immune state prediction methods

C Kanduri, L Scheffer, M Pavlović, KD Rand… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Machine learning (ML) has gained significant attention for classifying immune
states in adaptive immune receptor repertoires (AIRRs) to support the advancement of …