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A Deep Dimensionality Reduction method based on Variational Autoencoder for Antibody Complementarity Determining Region Sequences Analysis

10 pagesPublished: March 22, 2022

Abstract

An essential task in antibody/nanobody therapeutics discovery is to rapidly identify whether an antibody/nanobody has specificity and cross-reactivity to one or multiple tar- gets. Multiple target specificity and cross-reactivity of antibodies can be demonstrated by screening the third Complementarity Determining Region on the heavy chain (CDR-H3) of antibody sequences. However, the existing methods are costly and labor-intensive as repet- itive wet-lab experimentation is required to explore the sequences space. Here, we present a deep learning dimensionality reduction model based on Variational Autoencoder (VAE) and Residual Neural Network (Resnet), which we named VAEResDR. Our VAEResDR can efficiently learn the sequences’ key features while scaling down high-dimensional an- tibody sequences into a two-dimensional visualization representation for coherent analysis and rapid screening. We demonstrate that our VAEResDR can provide a tool to precisely analyze CDR-H3 sequences within the hidden patterns and effectively improve antibody/- nanobody CDR-H3 sequence clustering.

Keyphrases: Antibody sequences, Clustering, Cross-reactivity, deep learning, dimensionality reduction, Multispecificity

In: Hisham Al-Mubaid, Tamer Aldwairi and Oliver Eulenstein (editors). Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, vol 83, pages 116--125

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BibTeX entry
@inproceedings{BICOB2022:Deep_Dimensionality_Reduction_method,
  author    = {Saeed Khalilian and Mohammad Nasr Isfahani and Zahra Moti and Arian Baloochestani and Alireza Chavosh and Zahra Hemmatian},
  title     = {A Deep Dimensionality Reduction method based on Variational Autoencoder for Antibody Complementarity Determining Region Sequences Analysis},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology},
  editor    = {Hisham Al-Mubaid and Tamer Aldwairi and Oliver Eulenstein},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {83},
  pages     = {116--125},
  year      = {2022},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {https://easychair.org/publications/paper/G3Xf},
  doi       = {10.29007/x25c}}
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