1 code implementation • 15 Nov 2023 • Gian Marco Visani, William Galvin, Michael Neal Pun, Armita Nourmohammad
Accurately modeling protein 3D structure is essential for the design of functional proteins.
1 code implementation • 25 Jul 2023 • Giulio Isacchini, Valentin Quiniou, Hélène Vantomme, Paul Stys, Encarnita Mariotti-Ferandiz, David Klatzmann, Aleksandra M. Walczak, Thierry Mora, Armita Nourmohammad
The adaptive immune response relies on T cells that combine phenotypic specialization with diversity of T cell receptors (TCRs) to recognize a wide range of pathogens.
no code implementations • 5 Nov 2022 • Michael N. Pun, Andrew Ivanov, Quinn Bellamy, Zachary Montague, Colin LaMont, Philip Bradley, Jakub Otwinowski, Armita Nourmohammad
Proteins play a central role in biology from immune recognition to brain activity.
1 code implementation • 30 Sep 2022 • Gian Marco Visani, Michael N. Pun, Arman Angaji, Armita Nourmohammad
Group-equivariant neural networks have emerged as a data-efficient approach to solve classification and regression tasks, while respecting the relevant symmetries of the data.
no code implementations • 30 Nov 2021 • Colin LaMont, Jakub Otwinowski, Kanika Vanshylla, Henning Gruell, Florian Klein, Armita Nourmohammad
Lastly, we show that a cocktail of three bNAbs is necessary to suppress the chances of viral escape below 1%, and we predict the optimal composition of such a bNAb cocktail.
1 code implementation • 3 Jun 2021 • Giulio Isacchini, Natanael Spisak, Armita Nourmohammad, Thierry Mora, Aleksandra M. Walczak
One class of methods uses data simulated with different parameters to infer models of the likelihood-to-evidence ratio, or equivalently the posterior function.
1 code implementation • 5 Nov 2020 • Giulio Isacchini, Aleksandra M Walczak, Thierry Mora, Armita Nourmohammad
Additionally to these functional roles, T and B-cell lymphocytes rely on the diversity of their receptor chains to recognize different pathogens.
1 code implementation • 14 Jul 2020 • Zachary Montague, Huibin Lv, Jakub Otwinowski, William S. DeWitt, Giulio Isacchini, Garrick K. Yip, Wilson W. Ng, Owen Tak-Yin Tsang, Meng Yuan, Hejun Liu, Ian A. Wilson, J. S. Malik Peiris, Nicholas C. Wu, Armita Nourmohammad, Chris Ka Pun Mok
Using single-cell sequencing, we verified reactivity of BCRs shared among individuals to SARS-CoV-2 epitopes.
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2020 • Oskar H Schnaack, Armita Nourmohammad
The adaptive immune system provides a diverse set of molecules that can mount specific responses against a multitude of pathogens.
no code implementations • 29 Mar 2020 • Giulio Isacchini, Carlos Olivares, Armita Nourmohammad, Aleksandra M. Walczak, Thierry Mora
Recent advances in modelling VDJ recombination and subsequent selection of T and B cell receptors provide useful tools to analyze and compare immune repertoires across time, individuals, and tissues.
no code implementations • 31 Dec 2019 • Armita Nourmohammad, Ceyhun Eksin
Controlling an evolving population is an important task in modern molecular genetics, including directed evolution for improving the activity of molecules and enzymes, in breeding experiments in animals and in plants, and in devising public health strategies to suppress evolving pathogens.
1 code implementation • 27 Nov 2019 • Giulio Isacchini, Zachary Sethna, Yuval Elhanati, Armita Nourmohammad, Aleksandra M. Walczak, Thierry Mora
T-cell receptors (TCR) are key proteins of the adaptive immune system, generated randomly in each individual, whose diversity underlies our ability to recognize infections and malignancies.
Quantitative Methods