Antigen Receptor Galaxy: A User-Friendly, Web-Based Tool for Analysis and Visualization of T and B Cell Receptor Repertoire Data
| Autor: | David van Zessen, Hanna IJspeert, Andrew P. Stubbs, Ingrid Pico-Knijnenburg, Pauline A. van Schouwenburg, Mirjam van der Burg |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Immunology, Pathology |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Genetics Internet Repertoire Immunology T-cell receptor Receptors Antigen T-Cell breakpoint cluster region Computational Biology Receptors Antigen B-Cell Somatic hypermutation chemical and pharmacologic phenomena Immunogenetics Computational biology Biology Pipeline (software) Visualization 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology Antigen Novel Immunological Methods Humans Immunology and Allergy Somatic Hypermutation Immunoglobulin Software |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Immunology, 198(10), 4156-4165. American Association of Immunologists |
| ISSN: | 1550-6606 0022-1767 |
| DOI: | 10.4049/jimmunol.1601921 |
| Popis: | Antigen Receptor Galaxy (ARGalaxy) is a Web-based tool for analyses and visualization of TCR and BCR sequencing data of 13 species. ARGalaxy consists of four parts: the demultiplex tool, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system (IMGT) concatenate tool, the immune repertoire pipeline, and the somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class switch recombination (CSR) pipeline. Together they allow the analysis of all different aspects of the immune repertoire. All pipelines can be run independently or combined, depending on the available data and the question of interest. The demultiplex tool allows data trimming and demultiplexing, whereas with the concatenate tool multiple IMGT/HighV-QUEST output files can be merged into a single file. The immune repertoire pipeline is an extended version of our previously published ImmunoGlobulin Galaxy (IGGalaxy) virtual machine that was developed to visualize V(D)J gene usage. It allows analysis of both BCR and TCR rearrangements, visualizes CDR3 characteristics (length and amino acid usage) and junction characteristics, and calculates the diversity of the immune repertoire. Finally, ARGalaxy includes the newly developed SHM and CSR pipeline to analyze SHM and/or CSR in BCR rearrangements. It analyzes the frequency and patterns of SHM, Ag selection (including BASELINe), clonality (Change-O), and CSR. The functionality of the ARGalaxy tool is illustrated in several clinical examples of patients with primary immunodeficiencies. In conclusion, ARGalaxy is a novel tool for the analysis of the complete immune repertoire, which is applicable to many patient groups with disturbances in the immune repertoire such as autoimmune diseases, allergy, and leukemia, but it can also be used to address basic research questions in repertoire formation and selection. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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