Park­er In­sti­tute sum­moned the neoanti­gen pi­o­neers to com­pare their pre­dic­tion al­go­rithms. And they have some sug­ges­tions for the field

What makes a good neoanti­gen?

For all the promis­es of the bold new ap­proach to can­cer vac­cines and ther­a­pies — ze­ro­ing in on spe­cif­ic mu­tat­ed anti­gens ex­pressed on­ly by tu­mors — com­pa­nies and aca­d­e­mics have lit­tle way of know­ing how good they are at pre­dict­ing which neoanti­gens rep­re­sent the best tar­gets. There’s no stan­dard or base­line for play­ers to stack them­selves against ri­vals in the nascent field, and by the time they find out, it could be too late.

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