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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2026

VDJ-Insights: simplifying the annotation of genomic immunoglobulin and T cell receptor regions.

Susan E Ott, Giang N Le, Sayed J Mohammadi, Jesse Mittertreiner, Erica M Pasini, Ronald E Bontrop, Natasja G de Groot, Jesse Bruijnesteijn

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  1. Characterization of immunoglobulin loci inNAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2026
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Susan E OttBiomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk 2288 GJ, The Netherlands.ORCID 0009-0005-3976-6008
Giang N LeBiomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk 2288 GJ, The Netherlands.
Sayed J MohammadiBiomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk 2288 GJ, The Netherlands.
Jesse MittertreinerBiomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk 2288 GJ, The Netherlands.
Erica M PasiniBiomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk 2288 GJ, The Netherlands.
Ronald E BontropBiomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk 2288 GJ, The Netherlands.
Natasja G de GrootBiomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk 2288 GJ, The Netherlands.
Jesse BruijnesteijnBiomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk 2288 GJ, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-7480-5376

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Biomedical Primate Research CentreIntegrated Services for Infectious Disease Outbreak Research 998530320
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Abstract

motivationAccurate annotation of germline immunoglobulin (IG) and T cell receptor (TCR) loci is critical for understanding adaptive immunity.

resultsVDJ-Insights provides a user-friendly software package for characterizing these complex immune regions. In addition, it assesses gene segment functionality, identifies recombination signal sequences, and annotates complementarity-determining regions 1 and 2. VDJ-Insights achieved over 99% concordance with curated annotations from multiple species, outperforming existing annotation tools. When applied to 95 haplotypes from the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, VDJ-Insights identified 652 and 275 novel IG and TCR alleles, respectively, highlighting its scalability for large immunogenetic studies. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Datasets and software package are available in the VDJ-insights repository, https://github.com/BPRC-Bioinfo and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17588835. Additional intermediate datasets used and analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding authors upon reasonable request.

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ImmunoglobulinsMolecular Sequence AnnotationReceptors, Antigen, T-CellSoftwareAnimalsGenomicsHumansImmunoglobulinsReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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PMID41803074
PMCPMC13064985

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