AVIDa-hIL6

AVIDa-hIL6 is an antigen-variable domain of heavy chain of heavy chain antibody (VHH) interaction dataset produced from an alpaca immunized with the human interleukin-6 (IL-6) protein. By leveraging the simple structure of VHHs, which facilitates identification of full-length amino acid sequences by DNA sequencing technology, AVIDa-hIL6 contains 573,891 antigen-VHH pairs with amino acid sequences. All the antigen-VHH pairs have reliable labels for binding or non-binding, as generated by a novel labeling method. Furthermore, AVIDa-hIL6 has the wild type and 30 mutants of the IL-6 protein as antigens, and it includes many sensitive cases in which point mutations in IL-6 enhance or inhibit antibody binding. We envision that AVIDa-hIL6 will serve as a valuable benchmark for machine learning research in the growing field of predicting antigen-antibody interactions.