MHCPred: A server for quantitative prediction of peptide-MHC binding

Nucleic Acids Res. 2003 Jul 1;31(13):3621-4. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkg510.

Abstract

Accurate T-cell epitope prediction is a principal objective of computational vaccinology. As a service to the immunology and vaccinology communities at large, we have implemented, as a server on the World Wide Web, a partial least squares-based multivariate statistical approach to the quantitative prediction of peptide binding to major histocom- patibility complexes (MHC), the key checkpoint on the antigen presentation pathway within adaptive cellular immunity. MHCPred implements robust statistical models for both Class I alleles (HLA-A*0101, HLA-A*0201, HLA-A*0202, HLA-A*0203, HLA-A*0206, HLA-A*0301, HLA-A*1101, HLA-A*3301, HLA-A*6801, HLA-A*6802 and HLA-B*3501) and Class II alleles (HLA-DRB*0401, HLA-DRB*0401 and HLA-DRB*0701). MHCPred is available from the URL: http://www.jenner.ac.uk/MHCPred.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Binding Sites
  • Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte / chemistry*
  • Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte / metabolism*
  • HLA-A Antigens / chemistry
  • HLA-A Antigens / metabolism*
  • HLA-DR Antigens / chemistry
  • HLA-DR Antigens / metabolism*
  • Internet
  • Least-Squares Analysis
  • Models, Statistical
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Peptides / chemistry
  • Peptides / metabolism
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein / methods*
  • Software*

Substances

  • Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte
  • HLA-A Antigens
  • HLA-DR Antigens
  • Peptides