Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics, School of Life Sciences, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Muttenz, Switzerland.
Methods Mol Biol. 2022;2453:297-316. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2115-8_17.
Adaptive immune receptor repertoires (AIRRs) are rich with information that can be mined for insights into the workings of the immune system. Gene usage, CDR3 properties, clonal lineage structure, and sequence diversity are all capable of revealing the dynamic immune response to perturbation by disease, vaccination, or other interventions. Here we focus on a conceptual introduction to the many aspects of repertoire analysis and orient the reader toward the uses and advantages of each. Along the way, we note some of the many software tools that have been developed for these investigations and link the ideas discussed to chapters on methods provided elsewhere in this volume.
适应性免疫受体库 (AIRR) 中蕴含着丰富的信息,可用于深入了解免疫系统的工作原理。基因使用、CDR3 特性、克隆谱系结构和序列多样性都能够揭示疾病、疫苗接种或其他干预措施对动态免疫反应的影响。在这里,我们重点介绍了对库分析的多个方面的概念性介绍,并引导读者了解每种方法的用途和优势。在这个过程中,我们注意到了许多为此类研究开发的软件工具,并将讨论的思路与本卷其他章节中提供的方法章节联系起来。