Computing tumor specificity of cancer antigen targets by k-mer indexing of healthy tissue transcriptomes
Johannes Hausmann, Franziska Lang, Özlem Muslu, Luis Kress, Jonathan J. M. Landry, M Suchan, Andrea Nubbemeyer, Ruprecht Kuner, David F. Weber, Barbara Schrörs, Marcel H. Schulz, Matthias M. Gaida, Ugur Sahin, Jonas Ibn-Salem
The paper introduces k4neo, a tool that computes tumor specificity of transcript variants by k-mer indexing of healthy tissue RNA-seq data, identifying tumor-specific antigens across multiple cancer cohorts.
bioRxiv · Jul 3, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics