PEPITO: improved discontinuous B-cell epitope prediction using multiple distance thresholds and half sphere exposure

摘要

Motivation: Accurate prediction of B-cell epitopes is an important goal of computational immunology. Up to 90% of B-cell epitopes are discontinuous in nature, yet most predictors focus on linear epitopes. Even when the tertiary structure of the antigen is available, the accurate prediction of B-cell epitopes remains challenging.