Geneo: a bioinformatics toolbox for genomics-guided neoepitope prediction

S Al Seesi, A Al-Okaily, TV Shcheglova… - Journal of …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Journal of Computational Biology, 2023liebertpub.com
High-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing are revolutionizing precision oncology,
enabling personalized therapies such as cancer vaccines designed to target tumor-specific
neoepitopes generated by somatic mutations expressed in cancer cells. Identification of
these neoepitopes from next-generation sequencing data of clinical samples remains
challenging and requires the use of complex bioinformatics pipelines. In this paper, we
present GeNeo, a bioinformatics toolbox for genomics-guided neoepitope prediction. GeNeo …
High-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing are revolutionizing precision oncology, enabling personalized therapies such as cancer vaccines designed to target tumor-specific neoepitopes generated by somatic mutations expressed in cancer cells. Identification of these neoepitopes from next-generation sequencing data of clinical samples remains challenging and requires the use of complex bioinformatics pipelines. In this paper, we present GeNeo, a bioinformatics toolbox for genomics-guided neoepitope prediction. GeNeo includes a comprehensive set of tools for somatic variant calling and filtering, variant validation, and neoepitope prediction and filtering. For ease of use, GeNeo tools can be accessed via web-based interfaces deployed on a Galaxy portal publicly accessible at https://neo.engr.uconn.edu/. A virtual machine image for running GeNeo locally is also available to academic users upon request.
Mary Ann Liebert