ImmunoLingo: Linguistics-based formalization of the antibody language
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| author | Vu, Mai Ha Robert, Philippe A. Akbar, Rahmad Swiatczak, Bartlomiej Sandve, Geir Kjetil Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew Greiff, Victor |
| author_facet | Vu, Mai Ha Robert, Philippe A. Akbar, Rahmad Swiatczak, Bartlomiej Sandve, Geir Kjetil Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew Greiff, Victor |
| contents | Apparent parallels between natural language and biological sequence have led to a recent surge in the application of deep language models (LMs) to the analysis of antibody and other biological sequences. However, a lack of a rigorous linguistic formalization of biological sequence languages, which would define basic components, such as lexicon (i.e., the discrete units of the language) and grammar (i.e., the rules that link sequence well-formedness, structure, and meaning) has led to largely domain-unspecific applications of LMs, which do not take into account the underlying structure of the biological sequences studied. A linguistic formalization, on the other hand, establishes linguistically-informed and thus domain-adapted components for LM applications. It would facilitate a better understanding of how differences and similarities between natural language and biological sequences influence the quality of LMs, which is crucial for the design of interpretable models with extractable sequence-functions relationship rules, such as the ones underlying the antibody specificity prediction problem. Deciphering the rules of antibody specificity is crucial to accelerating rational and in silico biotherapeutic drug design. Here, we formalize the properties of the antibody language and thereby establish not only a foundation for the application of linguistic tools in adaptive immune receptor analysis but also for the systematic immunolinguistic studies of immune receptor specificity in general. |
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| spellingShingle | ImmunoLingo: Linguistics-based formalization of the antibody language Vu, Mai Ha Robert, Philippe A. Akbar, Rahmad Swiatczak, Bartlomiej Sandve, Geir Kjetil Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew Greiff, Victor Quantitative Methods Machine Learning Apparent parallels between natural language and biological sequence have led to a recent surge in the application of deep language models (LMs) to the analysis of antibody and other biological sequences. However, a lack of a rigorous linguistic formalization of biological sequence languages, which would define basic components, such as lexicon (i.e., the discrete units of the language) and grammar (i.e., the rules that link sequence well-formedness, structure, and meaning) has led to largely domain-unspecific applications of LMs, which do not take into account the underlying structure of the biological sequences studied. A linguistic formalization, on the other hand, establishes linguistically-informed and thus domain-adapted components for LM applications. It would facilitate a better understanding of how differences and similarities between natural language and biological sequences influence the quality of LMs, which is crucial for the design of interpretable models with extractable sequence-functions relationship rules, such as the ones underlying the antibody specificity prediction problem. Deciphering the rules of antibody specificity is crucial to accelerating rational and in silico biotherapeutic drug design. Here, we formalize the properties of the antibody language and thereby establish not only a foundation for the application of linguistic tools in adaptive immune receptor analysis but also for the systematic immunolinguistic studies of immune receptor specificity in general. |
| title | ImmunoLingo: Linguistics-based formalization of the antibody language |
| topic | Quantitative Methods Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12635 |