IJspeert Hanna, van Schouwenburg Pauline A, van Zessen David, Pico-Knijnenburg Ingrid, Stubbs Andrew P, van der Burg Mirjam
Department of Immunology, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 CN Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and.
Department of Bioinformatics, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 CE Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
J Immunol. 2017 May 15;198(10):4156-4165. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1601921. Epub 2017 Apr 17.
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.
抗原受体星系(ARGalaxy)是一个基于网络的工具,用于分析和可视化13个物种的TCR和BCR测序数据。ARGalaxy由四个部分组成:解复用工具、国际免疫基因信息系统(IMGT)拼接工具、免疫组库分析流程以及体细胞超突变(SHM)和类别转换重排(CSR)分析流程。它们共同实现了对免疫组库各个不同方面的分析。所有分析流程既可以独立运行,也可以根据可用数据和感兴趣的问题进行组合。解复用工具用于数据修剪和解复用,而拼接工具则可以将多个IMGT/HighV-QUEST输出文件合并为一个文件。免疫组库分析流程是我们之前发布的免疫球蛋白星系(IGGalaxy)虚拟机的扩展版本,该虚拟机旨在可视化V(D)J基因的使用情况。它可以分析BCR和TCR重排,可视化CDR3特征(长度和氨基酸使用情况)以及连接特征,并计算免疫组库的多样性。最后,ARGalaxy包括新开发的SHM和CSR分析流程,用于分析BCR重排中的SHM和/或CSR。它可以分析SHM的频率和模式、抗原选择(包括BASELINe)、克隆性(Change-O)以及CSR。ARGalaxy工具的功能在几个原发性免疫缺陷患者的临床实例中得到了展示。总之,ARGalaxy是一种用于分析完整免疫组库的新型工具,适用于许多免疫组库紊乱的患者群体,如自身免疫性疾病、过敏和白血病患者,同时也可用于解决免疫组库形成和选择方面的基础研究问题。