Putting computational models of immunity to the test - an invited challenge to predict B. pertussis vaccination outcomes
Pramod S. Shinde, Lisa Willemsen, Michael Anderson, Minori Aoki, Saonli Basu, Julie G. Burel, Peng Cheng, Souradipto Ghosh Dastidar, Aidan Dunleavy, Tal Einav, Jamie Forschmiedt, Slim Fourati, Javier Garcia, William Gibson, Jason A Greenbaum, , Bjoern Peters
The paper benchmarks 49 algorithms for predicting B. pertussis vaccination outcomes, finding that purpose-built models outperform literature-based ones due to better handling of nonlinearities and data preprocessing.
PLoS Computational Biology · Mar 31, 2025Peer-reviewedImmunology