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http://dx.doi.org/10.7472/jksii.2012.13.4.45

Knowledge based Genetic Algorithm for the Prediction of Peptides binding to HLA alleles common in Koreans  

Cho, Yeon-Jin ((주)원일테크)
Oh, Heung-Bum (울산대학교 의과대학 진단검사의학과)
Kim, Hyeon-Cheol (고려대학교 컴퓨터교육과)
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Journal of Internet Computing and Services / v.13, no.4, 2012 , pp. 45-52 More about this Journal
Abstract
T cells induce immune responses and thereby eliminate infected micro-organisms when peptides from the microbial proteins are bound to HLAs in the host cell surfaces, It is known that the more stable the binding of peptide to HLA is, the stronger the T cell response gets to remove more effectively the source of infection. Accordingly, if peptides (HLA binder) which can be bound stably to a certain HLA are found, those peptieds are utilized to the development of peptide vaccine to prevent infectious diseases or even to cancer. However, HLA is highly polymorphic so that HLA has a large number of alleles with some frequencies even in one population. Therefore, it is very inefficient to find the peptides stably bound to a number of HLAs by testing random possible peptides for all the various alleles frequent in the population. In order to solve this problem, computational methods have recently been developed to predict peptides which are stably bound to a certain HLA. These methods could markedly decrease the number of candidate peptides to be examined by biological experiments. Accordingly, this paper not only introduces a method of machine learning to predict peptides binding to an HLA, but also suggests a new prediction model so called 'knowledge-based genetic algorithm' that has never been tried for HLA binding peptide prediction. Although based on genetic algorithm (GA). it showed more enhanced performance than GA by incorporating expert knowledge in the process of the algorithm. Furthermore, it could extract rules predicting the binding peptide of the HLA alleles common in Koreans.
Keywords
Machine learning; Genetic algorithm; Knowledge based genetic algorithm; Rule generation; Prediction model; HLA binding peptide prediction; Korean common HLA allele;
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