miHA-Match: Computational detection of tissue-specific minor histocompatibility antigens

Here we present an immunoinformatics pipeline for the identification of miHAs. The pipeline can be applied to large-scale miHA screening, for example, in the development of diagnostic tests. Another interesting application is the design of personalized miHA-based cancer therapies based on patient-donor pair-specific miHAs detected by this pipeline. The suggested method covers various aspects of genetic variant detection, effects of alternative transcripts, and HLA-peptide binding. A comparison of our computational pipeline and experimentally derived datasets shows excellent agreement and coverage of the computationally predicted miHAs.