AsEP: Benchmarking Deep Learning Methods for Antibody-specific Epitope Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18184v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:43:56 GMT
• Title: AsEP: Benchmarking Deep Learning Methods for Antibody-specific Epitope Prediction
• Authors: Chunan Liu, Lilian Denzler, Yihong Chen, Andrew Martin, Brooks Paige,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a filtered antibody-antigen complex structure dataset, AsEP. AsEP is the largest of its kind and provides clustered groups, allowing the community to develop prediction methods. We propose a new method, WALLE, that leverages both protein language models and graph neural networks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Epitope identification is vital for antibody design yet challenging due to the inherent variability in antibodies. While many deep learning methods have been developed for general protein binding site prediction tasks, whether they work for epitope prediction remains an understudied research question. The challenge is also heightened by the lack of a consistent evaluation pipeline with sufficient dataset size and epitope diversity. We introduce a filtered antibody-antigen complex structure dataset, AsEP (Antibody-specific Epitope Prediction). AsEP is the largest of its kind and provides clustered epitope groups, allowing the community to develop and test novel epitope prediction methods. AsEP comes with an easy-to-use interface in Python and pre-built graph representations of each antibody-antigen complex while also supporting customizable embedding methods. Based on this new dataset, we benchmarked various representative general protein-binding site prediction methods and find that their performances are not satisfactory as expected for epitope prediction. We thus propose a new method, WALLE, that leverages both protein language models and graph neural networks. WALLE demonstrate about 5X performance gain over existing methods. Our empirical findings evidence that epitope prediction benefits from combining sequential embeddings provided by language models and geometrical information from graph representations, providing a guideline for future method design. In addition, we reformulate the task as bipartite link prediction, allowing easy model performance attribution and interpretability. We open-source our data and code at https://github.com/biochunan/AsEP-dataset.

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