MHCquant: Automated and Reproducible Data Analysis for Immunopeptidomics. Bichmann, L., Nelde, A., Ghosh, M., Heumos, L., Mohr, C., Peltzer, A., Kuchenbecker, L., Sachsenberg, T., Walz, J. S., Stevanović, S., Rammensee, H., & Kohlbacher, O. Journal of Proteome Research, 18(11):3876–3884, November, 2019. Publisher: American Chemical Society
MHCquant: Automated and Reproducible Data Analysis for Immunopeptidomics [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Personalized multipeptide vaccines are currently being discussed intensively for tumor immunotherapy. In order to identify epitopes—short, immunogenic peptides—suitable for eliciting a tumor-specific immune response, human leukocyte antigen-presented peptides are isolated by immunoaffinity purification from cancer tissue samples and analyzed by liquid chromatography-coupled tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS). Here, we present MHCquant, a fully automated, portable computational pipeline able to process LC–MS/MS data automatically and generate annotated, false discovery rate-controlled lists of (neo-)epitopes with associated relative quantification information. We could show that MHCquant achieves higher sensitivity than established methods. While obtaining the highest number of unique peptides, the rate of predicted MHC binders remains still comparable to other tools. Reprocessing of the data from a previously published study resulted in the identification of several neoepitopes not detected by previously applied methods. MHCquant integrates tailor-made pipeline components with existing open-source software into a coherent processing workflow. Container-based virtualization permits execution of this workflow without complex software installation, execution on cluster/cloud infrastructures, and full reproducibility of the results. Integration with the data analysis workbench KNIME enables easy mining of large-scale immunopeptidomics data sets. MHCquant is available as open-source software along with accompanying documentation on our website at https://www.openms.de/mhcquant/.
@article{bichmann_mhcquant_2019,
	title = {{MHCquant}: {Automated} and {Reproducible} {Data} {Analysis} for {Immunopeptidomics}},
	volume = {18},
	issn = {1535-3893},
	shorttitle = {{MHCquant}},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00313},
	doi = {10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00313},
	abstract = {Personalized multipeptide vaccines are currently being discussed intensively for tumor immunotherapy. In order to identify epitopes—short, immunogenic peptides—suitable for eliciting a tumor-specific immune response, human leukocyte antigen-presented peptides are isolated by immunoaffinity purification from cancer tissue samples and analyzed by liquid chromatography-coupled tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS). Here, we present MHCquant, a fully automated, portable computational pipeline able to process LC–MS/MS data automatically and generate annotated, false discovery rate-controlled lists of (neo-)epitopes with associated relative quantification information. We could show that MHCquant achieves higher sensitivity than established methods. While obtaining the highest number of unique peptides, the rate of predicted MHC binders remains still comparable to other tools. Reprocessing of the data from a previously published study resulted in the identification of several neoepitopes not detected by previously applied methods. MHCquant integrates tailor-made pipeline components with existing open-source software into a coherent processing workflow. Container-based virtualization permits execution of this workflow without complex software installation, execution on cluster/cloud infrastructures, and full reproducibility of the results. Integration with the data analysis workbench KNIME enables easy mining of large-scale immunopeptidomics data sets. MHCquant is available as open-source software along with accompanying documentation on our website at https://www.openms.de/mhcquant/.},
	number = {11},
	urldate = {2023-08-23},
	journal = {Journal of Proteome Research},
	author = {Bichmann, Leon and Nelde, Annika and Ghosh, Michael and Heumos, Lukas and Mohr, Christopher and Peltzer, Alexander and Kuchenbecker, Leon and Sachsenberg, Timo and Walz, Juliane S. and Stevanović, Stefan and Rammensee, Hans-Georg and Kohlbacher, Oliver},
	month = nov,
	year = {2019},
	note = {Publisher: American Chemical Society},
	pages = {3876--3884},
}

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