ImmunoNX: a robust bioinformatics workflow to support personalized neoantigen vaccine trials
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| author | Singhal, Kartik Schmidt, Evelyn Kiwala, Susanna Goedegebuure, S. Peter Miller, Christopher A. Xia, Huiming Cotto, Kelsy C. Li, Jinglun Yao, Jennie Hendrickson, Luke Richters, Miller M. Hoang, My H. Khanfar, Mariam Risch, Isabel O'Laughlin, Shelly Myers, Nancy Vickery, Tammi Davies, Sherri R. Du, Feiyu Mooney, Thomas B. Coffman, Adam Chang, Gue Su Hundal, Jasreet Garza, John E. McLellan, Michael D. McMichael, Joshua F. Maruska, John Inabinett, William Blake Hoos, William A. Karchin, Rachel Johanns, Tanner M. Dunn, Gavin P. Pachynski, Russel K. Fehniger, Todd A. Ward, Jeffrey P. Foltz, Jennifer A. Gillanders, William E. Griffith, Obi L. Griffith, Malachi |
| author_facet | Singhal, Kartik Schmidt, Evelyn Kiwala, Susanna Goedegebuure, S. Peter Miller, Christopher A. Xia, Huiming Cotto, Kelsy C. Li, Jinglun Yao, Jennie Hendrickson, Luke Richters, Miller M. Hoang, My H. Khanfar, Mariam Risch, Isabel O'Laughlin, Shelly Myers, Nancy Vickery, Tammi Davies, Sherri R. Du, Feiyu Mooney, Thomas B. Coffman, Adam Chang, Gue Su Hundal, Jasreet Garza, John E. McLellan, Michael D. McMichael, Joshua F. Maruska, John Inabinett, William Blake Hoos, William A. Karchin, Rachel Johanns, Tanner M. Dunn, Gavin P. Pachynski, Russel K. Fehniger, Todd A. Ward, Jeffrey P. Foltz, Jennifer A. Gillanders, William E. Griffith, Obi L. Griffith, Malachi |
| contents | Personalized neoantigen vaccines represent a promising immunotherapy approach that harnesses tumor-specific antigens to stimulate anti-tumor immune responses. However, the design of these vaccines requires sophisticated computational workflows to predict and prioritize neoantigen candidates from patient sequencing data, coupled with rigorous review to ensure candidate quality. While numerous computational tools exist for neoantigen prediction, to our knowledge, there are no established protocols detailing the complete process from raw sequencing data through systematic candidate selection. Here, we present ImmunoNX (Immunogenomics Neoantigen eXplorer), an end-to-end protocol for neoantigen prediction and vaccine design that has supported over 185 patients across 11 clinical trials. The workflow integrates tumor DNA/RNA and matched normal DNA sequencing data through a computational pipeline built with Workflow Definition Language (WDL) and executed via Cromwell on Google Cloud Platform. ImmunoNX employs consensus-based variant calling, in-silico HLA typing, and pVACtools for neoantigen prediction. Additionally, we describe a two-stage immunogenomics review process with prioritization of neoantigen candidates, enabled by pVACview, followed by manual assessment of variants using the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV). This workflow enables vaccine design in under three months. We demonstrate the protocol using the HCC1395 breast cancer cell line dataset, identifying 78 high-confidence neoantigen candidates from 322 initial predictions. Although demonstrated here for vaccine development, this workflow can be adapted for diverse neoantigen therapies and experiments. Therefore, this protocol provides the research community with a reproducible, version-controlled framework for designing personalized neoantigen vaccines, supported by detailed documentation, example datasets, and open-source code. |
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| spellingShingle | ImmunoNX: a robust bioinformatics workflow to support personalized neoantigen vaccine trials Singhal, Kartik Schmidt, Evelyn Kiwala, Susanna Goedegebuure, S. Peter Miller, Christopher A. Xia, Huiming Cotto, Kelsy C. Li, Jinglun Yao, Jennie Hendrickson, Luke Richters, Miller M. Hoang, My H. Khanfar, Mariam Risch, Isabel O'Laughlin, Shelly Myers, Nancy Vickery, Tammi Davies, Sherri R. Du, Feiyu Mooney, Thomas B. Coffman, Adam Chang, Gue Su Hundal, Jasreet Garza, John E. McLellan, Michael D. McMichael, Joshua F. Maruska, John Inabinett, William Blake Hoos, William A. Karchin, Rachel Johanns, Tanner M. Dunn, Gavin P. Pachynski, Russel K. Fehniger, Todd A. Ward, Jeffrey P. Foltz, Jennifer A. Gillanders, William E. Griffith, Obi L. Griffith, Malachi Genomics Personalized neoantigen vaccines represent a promising immunotherapy approach that harnesses tumor-specific antigens to stimulate anti-tumor immune responses. However, the design of these vaccines requires sophisticated computational workflows to predict and prioritize neoantigen candidates from patient sequencing data, coupled with rigorous review to ensure candidate quality. While numerous computational tools exist for neoantigen prediction, to our knowledge, there are no established protocols detailing the complete process from raw sequencing data through systematic candidate selection. Here, we present ImmunoNX (Immunogenomics Neoantigen eXplorer), an end-to-end protocol for neoantigen prediction and vaccine design that has supported over 185 patients across 11 clinical trials. The workflow integrates tumor DNA/RNA and matched normal DNA sequencing data through a computational pipeline built with Workflow Definition Language (WDL) and executed via Cromwell on Google Cloud Platform. ImmunoNX employs consensus-based variant calling, in-silico HLA typing, and pVACtools for neoantigen prediction. Additionally, we describe a two-stage immunogenomics review process with prioritization of neoantigen candidates, enabled by pVACview, followed by manual assessment of variants using the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV). This workflow enables vaccine design in under three months. We demonstrate the protocol using the HCC1395 breast cancer cell line dataset, identifying 78 high-confidence neoantigen candidates from 322 initial predictions. Although demonstrated here for vaccine development, this workflow can be adapted for diverse neoantigen therapies and experiments. Therefore, this protocol provides the research community with a reproducible, version-controlled framework for designing personalized neoantigen vaccines, supported by detailed documentation, example datasets, and open-source code. |
| title | ImmunoNX: a robust bioinformatics workflow to support personalized neoantigen vaccine trials |
| topic | Genomics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08226 |