LIVIVO - Search results -

Search results

Result 1 - 10 of total 78

Search options

Article ; Online: Vaccine Design by Reverse Vaccinology and Machine Learning.

Ong, Edison / He, Yongqun

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

2021 Volume 2414, Page(s) 1–16

Abstract: Reverse vaccinology (RV) is the state-of-the-art vaccine development strategy that starts with predicting vaccine antigens by bioinformatics analysis of the whole genome of a pathogen of interest. Vaxign is the first web-based RV vaccine prediction ... ...

Abstract	Reverse vaccinology (RV) is the state-of-the-art vaccine development strategy that starts with predicting vaccine antigens by bioinformatics analysis of the whole genome of a pathogen of interest. Vaxign is the first web-based RV vaccine prediction method based on calculating and filtering different criteria of proteins. Vaxign-ML is a new Vaxign machine learning (ML) method that predicts vaccine antigens based on extreme gradient boosting with the advance of new technologies and cumulation of protective antigen data. Using a benchmark dataset, Vaxign-ML showed superior performance in comparison to existing open-source RV tools. Vaxign-ML is also implemented within the web-based Vaxign platform to support easy and intuitive access. Vaxign-ML is also available as a command-based software package for more advanced and customizable vaccine antigen prediction. Both Vaxign and Vaxign-ML have been applied to predict SARS-CoV-2 (cause of COVID-19) and Brucella vaccine antigens to demonstrate the integrative approach to analyze and select vaccine candidates using the Vaxign platform.
MeSH term(s)	Brucella Vaccine ; COVID-19 ; COVID-19 Vaccines ; Computational Biology ; Humans ; Machine Learning ; Vaccines ; Vaccinology
Chemical Substances	Brucella Vaccine ; COVID-19 Vaccines ; Vaccines
Language	English
Publishing date	2021-11-13
Publishing country	United States
Document type	Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
ISSN	1940-6029
ISSN (online)	1940-6029
DOI	10.1007/978-1-0716-1900-1_1
Database	MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE

Order via subito

This service is chargeable due to the Delivery terms set by subito. Orders including an article and supplementary material will be classified as separate orders. In these cases, fees will be demanded for each order.

Inter-library loan at ZB MED

Your chosen title can be delivered directly to ZB MED Cologne location if you are registered as a user at ZB MED Cologne.

Article: Identification of

Teahan, Blaine / Ong, Edison / Yang, Zhenhua

Vaccines

2021 Volume 9, Issue 10

Abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death of any single infectious agent, having led to 1.4 million deaths in 2019 alone. Moreover, an estimated one-quarter of the global population is latently infected ... ...

Abstract	Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death of any single infectious agent, having led to 1.4 million deaths in 2019 alone. Moreover, an estimated one-quarter of the global population is latently infected with
Language	English
Publishing date	2021-09-28
Publishing country	Switzerland
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	2703319-3
ISSN	2076-393X
ISSN	2076-393X
DOI	10.3390/vaccines9101098
Database	MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE

Order via subito

Article ; Online: mtx-COBRA: Subcellular localization prediction for bacterial proteins.

Arora, Isha / Kummer, Arkadij / Zhou, Hao / Gadjeva, Mihaela / Ma, Eric / Chuang, Gwo-Yu / Ong, Edison

Computers in biology and medicine

2024 Volume 171, Page(s) 108114

Abstract: Background: Bacteria can have beneficial effects on our health and environment; however, many are responsible for serious infectious diseases, warranting the need for vaccines against such pathogens. Bioinformatic and experimental technologies are ... ...

Abstract	Background: Bacteria can have beneficial effects on our health and environment; however, many are responsible for serious infectious diseases, warranting the need for vaccines against such pathogens. Bioinformatic and experimental technologies are crucial for the development of vaccines. The vaccine design pipeline requires identification of bacteria-specific antigens that can be recognized and can induce a response by the immune system upon infection. Immune system recognition is influenced by the location of a protein. Methods have been developed to determine the subcellular localization (SCL) of proteins in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Bioinformatic tools such as PSORTb can be employed to determine SCL of proteins, which would be tedious to perform experimentally. Unfortunately, PSORTb often predicts many proteins as having an "Unknown" SCL, reducing the number of antigens to evaluate as potential vaccine targets. Method: We present a new pipeline called subCellular lOcalization prediction for BacteRiAl Proteins (mtx-COBRA). mtx-COBRA uses Meta's protein language model, Evolutionary Scale Modeling, combined with an Extreme Gradient Boosting machine learning model to identify SCL of bacterial proteins based on amino acid sequence. This pipeline is trained on a curated dataset that combines data from UniProt and the publicly available ePSORTdb dataset. Results: Using benchmarking analyses, nested 5-fold cross-validation, and leave-one-pathogen-out methods, followed by testing on the held-out dataset, we show that our pipeline predicts the SCL of bacterial proteins more accurately than PSORTb. Conclusions: mtx-COBRA provides an accessible pipeline that can more efficiently classify bacterial proteins with currently "Unknown" SCLs than existing bioinformatic and experimental methods.
MeSH term(s)	Bacterial Proteins/chemistry ; Software ; Bacteria ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Vaccines ; Computational Biology/methods
Chemical Substances	Bacterial Proteins ; Vaccines
Language	English
Publishing date	2024-02-10
Publishing country	United States
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	127557-4
ISSN	1879-0534 ; 0010-4825
ISSN (online)	1879-0534
ISSN	0010-4825
DOI	10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108114
Database	MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE

Full text online

Accessible to users with ZB MED library card

In stock of ZB MED Cologne/Königswinter

Zs.A 653: Show issues

Location:
Je nach Verfügbarkeit (siehe Angabe bei Bestand)
bis Jg. 1994: Bestellungen von Artikeln über das Online-Bestellformular
Jg. 1995 - 2021: Lesesall (1.OG)
ab Jg. 2022: Lesesaal (EG)

Order via subito

Details ▾

Article ; Online: Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Antigens with Vaccine Potential Using a Machine Learning-Based Reverse Vaccinology Approach

Blaine Teahan / Edison Ong / Zhenhua Yang

Vaccines, Vol 9, Iss 1098, p

2021 Volume 1098

Abstract	Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death of any single infectious agent, having led to 1.4 million deaths in 2019 alone. Moreover, an estimated one-quarter of the global population is latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), presenting a huge pool of potential future disease. Nonetheless, the only currently licensed TB vaccine fails to prevent the activation of latent TB infections (LTBI). These facts together illustrate the desperate need for a more effective TB vaccine strategy that can prevent both primary infection and the activation of LTBI. In this study, we employed a machine learning-based reverse vaccinology approach to predict the likelihood that each protein within the proteome of MTB laboratory reference strain H37Rv would be a protective antigen (PAg). The proteins predicted most likely to be a PAg were assessed for their belonging to a protein family of previously established PAgs, the relevance of their biological processes to MTB virulence and latency, and finally the immunogenic potential that they may provide in terms of the number of promiscuous epitopes within each. This study led to the identification of 16 proteins with the greatest vaccine potential for further in vitro and in vivo studies. It also demonstrates the value of computational methods in vaccine development.
Keywords	tuberculosis ; vaccines ; protective antigens ; machine learning ; reverse vaccinology ; Medicine ; R
Language	English
Publishing date	2021-09-01T00:00:00Z
Publisher	MDPI AG
Document type	Article ; Online
Database	BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

Full text online

Full text

Inter-library loan at ZB MED

Your chosen title can be delivered directly to ZB MED Cologne location if you are registered as a user at ZB MED Cologne.

Article ; Online: COVID-19 vaccine design using reverse and structural vaccinology, ontology-based literature mining and machine learning.

Huffman, Anthony / Ong, Edison / Hur, Junguk / D'Mello, Adonis / Tettelin, Hervé / He, Yongqun

Briefings in bioinformatics

2022 Volume 23, Issue 4

Abstract: Rational vaccine design, especially vaccine antigen identification and optimization, is critical to successful and efficient vaccine development against various infectious diseases including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In general, computational ... ...

Abstract	Rational vaccine design, especially vaccine antigen identification and optimization, is critical to successful and efficient vaccine development against various infectious diseases including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In general, computational vaccine design includes three major stages: (i) identification and annotation of experimentally verified gold standard protective antigens through literature mining, (ii) rational vaccine design using reverse vaccinology (RV) and structural vaccinology (SV) and (iii) post-licensure vaccine success and adverse event surveillance and its usage for vaccine design. Protegen is a database of experimentally verified protective antigens, which can be used as gold standard data for rational vaccine design. RV predicts protective antigen targets primarily from genome sequence analysis. SV refines antigens through structural engineering. Recently, RV and SV approaches, with the support of various machine learning methods, have been applied to COVID-19 vaccine design. The analysis of post-licensure vaccine adverse event report data also provides valuable results in terms of vaccine safety and how vaccines should be used or paused. Ontology standardizes and incorporates heterogeneous data and knowledge in a human- and computer-interpretable manner, further supporting machine learning and vaccine design. Future directions on rational vaccine design are discussed.
MeSH term(s)	COVID-19/prevention & control ; COVID-19 Vaccines ; Data Mining ; Humans ; Machine Learning ; Vaccines/chemistry ; Vaccines/genetics ; Vaccinology/methods
Chemical Substances	COVID-19 Vaccines ; Vaccines
Language	English
Publishing date	2022-06-01
Publishing country	England
Document type	Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
ZDB-ID	2068142-2
ISSN	1477-4054 ; 1467-5463
ISSN (online)	1477-4054
ISSN	1467-5463
DOI	10.1093/bib/bbac190
Database	MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE

In stock of ZB MED Cologne/Königswinter

Zs.A 6262: Show issues

Location:
Je nach Verfügbarkeit (siehe Angabe bei Bestand)
bis Jg. 2021: Bestellungen von Artikeln über das Online-Bestellformular
ab Jg. 2022: Lesesaal (EG)

Order via subito

Details ▾
- See ZB MED holdings
- Order with fees

Article ; Online: Epitope promiscuity and population coverage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein antigens in current subunit vaccines under development.

Ong, Edison / He, Yongqun / Yang, Zhenhua

Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases

2020 Volume 80, Page(s) 104186

Abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide and claimed over 1.6 million lives in 2017. Furthermore, one-third of the world population is estimated to be latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). A safe and ... ...

Abstract	Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide and claimed over 1.6 million lives in 2017. Furthermore, one-third of the world population is estimated to be latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). A safe and effective MTB vaccine that can prevent both the primary infection and the reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), and that can protect against all forms of TB in adults and adolescents is urgently needed. In this study, using computational approaches, we predicted the capacity of the epitopes to be presented by the HLA molecules for ten MTB protein antigens (Mtb39a, Mtb32a, Ag85B, ESAT-6, TB10.4, Rv2660, Rv2608, Rv3619, Rv3620, and Rv1813) constituting five MTB subunit vaccines (M72, H1, H4, H56, and ID93) that are currently in clinical trials. We also assessed the promiscuity of the predicted epitopes based on a reference set of alleles and supertype alleles, and estimated the population coverage of the ten antigens in three high TB burden countries (China, India, and South Africa). Among the ten antigens evaluated, Rv2608 was found to have the highest number of promiscuous epitopes predicted to bind the most MHC-I and MHC-II supertype alleles, highest predicted immunogenicity, and the broadest population coverage in three high burden countries. Between the two latency-related antigens (Rv1813 and Rv2660), Rv1813 was predicted to have a better epitope diversity and promiscuity, immunogenicity, and population coverage. As a result, the ID93 vaccine consisted of Rv2608, Rv1813, Rv3619, and Rv3620 was predicted to have the best potential for preventing both active and latent TB infection. Our results highlighted the importance and usefulness of a systematic and comprehensive assessment of protein antigens using computational approaches in MTB vaccine development.
MeSH term(s)	Alleles ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Antigens, Bacterial/chemistry ; Antigens, Bacterial/genetics ; Antigens, Bacterial/immunology ; Epitopes/chemistry ; Epitopes/genetics ; Epitopes/immunology ; Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/genetics ; Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/immunology ; Humans ; Immunogenicity, Vaccine/genetics ; Latent Tuberculosis/prevention & control ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/immunology ; Tuberculosis/prevention & control ; Tuberculosis Vaccines/immunology ; Vaccination Coverage ; Vaccines, Subunit/immunology
Chemical Substances	Antigens, Bacterial ; Epitopes ; Histocompatibility Antigens Class I ; Tuberculosis Vaccines ; Vaccines, Subunit ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens (144058-44-6)
Language	English
Publishing date	2020-01-08
Publishing country	Netherlands
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	2037068-4
ISSN	1567-7257 ; 1567-1348
ISSN (online)	1567-7257
ISSN	1567-1348
DOI	10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104186
Database	MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE

Full text online

Accessible to users with ZB MED library card

In stock of ZB MED Cologne/Königswinter

Zs.A 5645: Show issues

Location:
Je nach Verfügbarkeit (siehe Angabe bei Bestand)
bis Jg. 1994: Bestellungen von Artikeln über das Online-Bestellformular
Jg. 1995 - 2021: Lesesall (2.OG)
ab Jg. 2022: Lesesaal (EG)

Order via subito

Details ▾

Article ; Online: COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine Design Using Reverse Vaccinology and Machine Learning

Ong, Edison / Wong, Mei U / Huffman, Anthony / He, Yongqun

Frontiers in Immunology

2020 Volume 11

Keywords	covid19
Publisher	Frontiers Media SA
Publishing country	ch
Document type	Article ; Online
ZDB-ID	2606827-8
ISSN	1664-3224
ISSN	1664-3224
DOI	10.3389/fimmu.2020.01581
Database	BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

Full text online

Full text

Order via subito

Details ▾
- Full text online
- Order with fees

Book ; Online: Table_1_COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine Design Using Reverse Vaccinology and Machine Learning.DOCX

Edison Ong / Mei U Wong / Anthony Huffman / Yongqun He

2020

Abstract: To ultimately combat the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, it is desired to develop an effective and safe vaccine against this highly contagious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Our literature and clinical trial survey showed that the whole virus, ...

Abstract	To ultimately combat the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, it is desired to develop an effective and safe vaccine against this highly contagious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Our literature and clinical trial survey showed that the whole virus, as well as the spike (S) protein, nucleocapsid (N) protein, and membrane (M) protein, have been tested for vaccine development against SARS and MERS. However, these vaccine candidates might lack the induction of complete protection and have safety concerns. We then applied the Vaxign and the newly developed machine learning-based Vaxign-ML reverse vaccinology tools to predict COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Our Vaxign analysis found that the SARS-CoV-2 N protein sequence is conserved with SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV but not from the other four human coronaviruses causing mild symptoms. By investigating the entire proteome of SARS-CoV-2, six proteins, including the S protein and five non-structural proteins (nsp3, 3CL-pro, and nsp8-10), were predicted to be adhesins, which are crucial to the viral adhering and host invasion. The S, nsp3, and nsp8 proteins were also predicted by Vaxign-ML to induce high protective antigenicity. Besides the commonly used S protein, the nsp3 protein has not been tested in any coronavirus vaccine studies and was selected for further investigation. The nsp3 was found to be more conserved among SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV than among 15 coronaviruses infecting human and other animals. The protein was also predicted to contain promiscuous MHC-I and MHC-II T-cell epitopes, and the predicted linear B-cell epitopes were found to be localized on the surface of the protein. Our predicted vaccine targets have the potential for effective and safe COVID-19 vaccine development. We also propose that an “Sp/Nsp cocktail vaccine” containing a structural protein(s) (Sp) and a non-structural protein(s) (Nsp) would stimulate effective complementary immune responses.
Keywords	Immunology ; Applied Immunology (incl. Antibody Engineering ; Xenotransplantation and T-cell Therapies) ; Autoimmunity ; Cellular Immunology ; Humoural Immunology and Immunochemistry ; Immunogenetics (incl. Genetic Immunology) ; Innate Immunity ; Transplantation Immunology ; Tumour Immunology ; Immunology not elsewhere classified ; Genetic Immunology ; Animal Immunology ; Veterinary Immunology ; COVID-19 ; S protein ; non-structural protein 3 ; vaccine ; reverse vaccinology ; machine learning ; vaxign ; vaxign-ML ; covid19
Subject code	570
Publishing date	2020-07-03T13:28:55Z
Publishing country	uk
Document type	Book ; Online
Database	BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

Full text online

Full text

Inter-library loan at ZB MED

Your chosen title can be delivered directly to ZB MED Cologne location if you are registered as a user at ZB MED Cologne.

Article ; Online: COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine Design Using Reverse Vaccinology and Machine Learning

Edison Ong / Mei U Wong / Anthony Huffman / Yongqun He

Frontiers in Immunology, Vol

2020 Volume 11

Abstract	To ultimately combat the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, it is desired to develop an effective and safe vaccine against this highly contagious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Our literature and clinical trial survey showed that the whole virus, as well as the spike (S) protein, nucleocapsid (N) protein, and membrane (M) protein, have been tested for vaccine development against SARS and MERS. However, these vaccine candidates might lack the induction of complete protection and have safety concerns. We then applied the Vaxign and the newly developed machine learning-based Vaxign-ML reverse vaccinology tools to predict COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Our Vaxign analysis found that the SARS-CoV-2 N protein sequence is conserved with SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV but not from the other four human coronaviruses causing mild symptoms. By investigating the entire proteome of SARS-CoV-2, six proteins, including the S protein and five non-structural proteins (nsp3, 3CL-pro, and nsp8-10), were predicted to be adhesins, which are crucial to the viral adhering and host invasion. The S, nsp3, and nsp8 proteins were also predicted by Vaxign-ML to induce high protective antigenicity. Besides the commonly used S protein, the nsp3 protein has not been tested in any coronavirus vaccine studies and was selected for further investigation. The nsp3 was found to be more conserved among SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV than among 15 coronaviruses infecting human and other animals. The protein was also predicted to contain promiscuous MHC-I and MHC-II T-cell epitopes, and the predicted linear B-cell epitopes were found to be localized on the surface of the protein. Our predicted vaccine targets have the potential for effective and safe COVID-19 vaccine development. We also propose that an “Sp/Nsp cocktail vaccine” containing a structural protein(s) (Sp) and a non-structural protein(s) (Nsp) would stimulate effective complementary immune responses.
Keywords	COVID-19 ; S protein ; non-structural protein 3 ; vaccine ; reverse vaccinology ; machine learning ; Immunologic diseases. Allergy ; RC581-607 ; covid19
Subject code	572
Language	English
Publishing date	2020-07-01T00:00:00Z
Publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
Document type	Article ; Online
Database	BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

Full text online

Full text

Inter-library loan at ZB MED

Your chosen title can be delivered directly to ZB MED Cologne location if you are registered as a user at ZB MED Cologne.

Book ; Online: Data_Sheet_1_COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine Design Using Reverse Vaccinology and Machine Learning.PDF

Edison Ong / Mei U Wong / Anthony Huffman / Yongqun He

2020

Abstract	To ultimately combat the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, it is desired to develop an effective and safe vaccine against this highly contagious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Our literature and clinical trial survey showed that the whole virus, as well as the spike (S) protein, nucleocapsid (N) protein, and membrane (M) protein, have been tested for vaccine development against SARS and MERS. However, these vaccine candidates might lack the induction of complete protection and have safety concerns. We then applied the Vaxign and the newly developed machine learning-based Vaxign-ML reverse vaccinology tools to predict COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Our Vaxign analysis found that the SARS-CoV-2 N protein sequence is conserved with SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV but not from the other four human coronaviruses causing mild symptoms. By investigating the entire proteome of SARS-CoV-2, six proteins, including the S protein and five non-structural proteins (nsp3, 3CL-pro, and nsp8-10), were predicted to be adhesins, which are crucial to the viral adhering and host invasion. The S, nsp3, and nsp8 proteins were also predicted by Vaxign-ML to induce high protective antigenicity. Besides the commonly used S protein, the nsp3 protein has not been tested in any coronavirus vaccine studies and was selected for further investigation. The nsp3 was found to be more conserved among SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV than among 15 coronaviruses infecting human and other animals. The protein was also predicted to contain promiscuous MHC-I and MHC-II T-cell epitopes, and the predicted linear B-cell epitopes were found to be localized on the surface of the protein. Our predicted vaccine targets have the potential for effective and safe COVID-19 vaccine development. We also propose that an “Sp/Nsp cocktail vaccine” containing a structural protein(s) (Sp) and a non-structural protein(s) (Nsp) would stimulate effective complementary immune responses.
Keywords	Immunology ; Applied Immunology (incl. Antibody Engineering ; Xenotransplantation and T-cell Therapies) ; Autoimmunity ; Cellular Immunology ; Humoural Immunology and Immunochemistry ; Immunogenetics (incl. Genetic Immunology) ; Innate Immunity ; Transplantation Immunology ; Tumour Immunology ; Immunology not elsewhere classified ; Genetic Immunology ; Animal Immunology ; Veterinary Immunology ; COVID-19 ; S protein ; non-structural protein 3 ; vaccine ; reverse vaccinology ; machine learning ; vaxign ; vaxign-ML ; covid19
Subject code	570
Publishing date	2020-07-03T13:28:55Z
Publishing country	uk
Document type	Book ; Online
Database	BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

Full text online

Full text

Inter-library loan at ZB MED

Your chosen title can be delivered directly to ZB MED Cologne location if you are registered as a user at ZB MED Cologne.

To top

More links

Kategorien

Order via subito

Inter-library loan at ZB MED

More links

Kategorien

Order via subito

Full text online

More links

Kategorien

In stock of ZB MED Cologne/Königswinter

Order via subito

Full text online

More links

Kategorien

Inter-library loan at ZB MED

More links

Kategorien

In stock of ZB MED Cologne/Königswinter

Order via subito

Full text online

More links

Kategorien

In stock of ZB MED Cologne/Königswinter

Order via subito

Full text online

More links

Kategorien

Order via subito

Full text online

More links

Kategorien

Inter-library loan at ZB MED

Full text online

More links

Kategorien

Inter-library loan at ZB MED

Full text online

More links

Kategorien

Inter-library loan at ZB MED