Journal
JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 194, Issue 1, Pages 446-454Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1400711
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 project) [2013CB531500, 2015CB554204]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The next-generation sequencing technology has promoted the study on human TCR repertoire, which is essential for the adaptive immunity. To decipher the complexity of TCR repertoire, we developed an integrated pipeline, TCRklass, using K-string-based algorithm that has significantly improved the accuracy and performance over existing tools. We tested TCRklass using manually curated short read datasets in comparison with in silico datasets; it showed higher precision and recall rates on CDR3 identification. We applied TCRklass on large datasets of two human and three mouse TCR repertoires; it demonstrated higher reliability on CDR3 identification and much less biased V/J profiling, which are the two components contributing the diversity of the repertoire. Because of the sequencing cost, short paired-end reads generated by next-generation sequencing technology are and will remain the main source of data, and we believe that the TCRklass is a useful and reliable toolkit for TCR repertoire analysis.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available