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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2019

ImSpectR - R package to quantify immune repertoire diversity in spectratype and repertoire sequencing data.

Martijn Cordes, Karin Pike-Overzet, Marja van Eggermond, Sandra Vloemans, Miranda R Baert, Laura Garcia-Perez, Frank J T Staal, Marcel J T Reinders, Erik van den Akker

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Martijn CordesDepartment of Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Karin Pike-OverzetDepartment of Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Marja van EggermondDepartment of Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Sandra VloemansDepartment of Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Miranda R BaertDepartment of Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Laura Garcia-PerezDepartment of Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Frank J T StaalDepartment of Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Marcel J T ReindersLeiden Computational Biology Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Erik van den AkkerLeiden Computational Biology Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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summaryAn effective immune system is characterized by a diverse immune repertoire. There is a strong demand for accurate and quantitative methods to assess the diversity of the immune repertoire for various (pre-)clinical applications, including the diagnosis and prognosis of primary immune deficiencies, or to assess the response to therapy. Current strategies for immune diversity assessment generally comprise the visual inspection of the length distribution of rearranged T- and B-cell receptors. Visual inspections, however, are prone to subjective assessments and thus lead to biases. Here, we introduce ImSpectR, a unified approach to quantify immunodiversity using either spectratype, repertoire sequencing or single cell RNA sequencing data. ImSpectR scores various types of deviations from the expected length distribution and integrates these into one measure, allowing for robust quantitative comparisons of immune diversity across individuals or conditions. AVAILABILITY: R-package is available for download on GitHub at https://github.com/martijn-cordes/ImSpectR. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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