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ReviewThe Journal of biological chemistry2020

How repertoire data are changing antibody science.

Claire Marks, Charlotte M Deane

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Review in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Explore antibody repertoire in the era of AI.Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica · 2025
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  10. Data-optimal scaling of paired antibody language models.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  11. Improving B-cell epitope prediction.Drug discovery today · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Claire MarksDepartment of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Charlotte M DeaneDepartment of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom deane@stats.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-1388-2252

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibodies are vital proteins of the immune system that recognize potentially harmful molecules and initiate their removal. Mammals can efficiently create vast numbers of antibodies with different sequences capable of binding to any antigen with high affinity and specificity. Because they can be developed to bind to many disease agents, antibodies can be used as therapeutics. In an organism, after antigen exposure, antibodies specific to that antigen are enriched through clonal selection, expansion, and somatic hypermutation. The antibodies present in an organism therefore report on its immune status, describe its innate ability to deal with harmful substances, and reveal how it has previously responded. Next-generation sequencing technologies are being increasingly used to query the antibody, or B-cell receptor (BCR), sequence repertoire, and the amount of BCR data in public repositories is growing. The Observed Antibody Space database, for example, currently contains over a billion sequences from 68 different studies. Repertoires are available that represent both the naive state (

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B-LymphocytesDatabases, Nucleic AcidHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingAnimalsAntibodiesHumansReceptors, Antigen, B-CellAntibodiesReceptors, Antigen, B-Celladaptive immunityantibodyB-cell receptor (BCR)bioinformaticsimmunologynext-generation sequencingobserved antibody space databaseprotein sequenceprotein structurestructural annotation

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PMID32409582
PMCPMC7380193

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