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The AIRR-C Diagnostics Working Group published on the future of blood testing using AIRR technology

March 10, 2021 by Pam Borghardt

The AIRR-C Diagnostics Working Group recently published a manuscript on using the immunome for blood testing in Frontiers in Immunology. In the manuscript, the AIRR-C discusses opportunities as well as the current state of immunome-based diagnostics and highlights some of the challenges involved. The authors conclude with a call to clinicians, researchers, and others to join efforts AIRR-C to realize the diagnostic potential of the immunome. In the paper, the researchers define immunome as “millions of V(D)J-rearranged antibody and T cell receptor genes collectively expressed by a person’s B cells (antibodies) and T cells”.

The Future of Blood Testing Is the Immunome. (Frontiers in Immunology, 2021).

Arnaout RA, Prak ETL, Schwab N, Rubelt F. Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Community.

Filed Under: AIRR Community Tagged With: Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Community, diagnostics

Interns looking for Integrated Immunology Projects

March 6, 2021 by jpburckert

The Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen (Germany) is looking for PIs working in the AIRR-seq space to take on intern students. The internship should be a short scientific project spanning 8 weeks to 6 months. The application process starts in March and the internship is expected to start in October to December. You can read more information about it at  https://www.iimmune.nat.fau.de/ . 

Interested PIs should send an email to Simon Schäfer of the AIRR-C Communications Sub-committee (simon.schaefer@fau.de) for further details.

The Comms SC is interested in helping to facilitate matchmaking between PIs and students to engage in AIRR internship exchanges and this is the first step in that process.

Please add your name to the list today!

Filed Under: AIRR Community, Systems Immunology Tagged With: Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Community, AIRR-seq, Systems Immunology

A newly certified AIRR-compliant software tool: The Immcantation Framework

February 26, 2021 by jpburckert

The AIRR Community is excited to announce that the Immcantation Framework has been certified as compliant with the AIRR-C v1.0 standard for AIRR-Seq software tools.

In an effort to enable rigorous and reproducible immune repertoire research at the largest scale possible, the AIRR-C Software Working Group has established a standard to validate software tools using the AIRR-C Standards and meeting a series of interoperability and quality criteria. Developers interested in certifying their tools should complete the checklist and submit it to the AIRR-C Software Working Group for evaluation and ratification by its members.

More details can be found at the website AIRR Software WG – Guidance for AIRR Software Tools.

All compliant tools will be issued a badge and listed on the website AIRR Software WG – List of Tools Certified as Compliant.

Filed Under: AIRR Community Tagged With: Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Community

Successful AIRR Community Meeting V

January 15, 2021 by Pam Borghardt

The fifth AIRR Community meeting (#AIRRC5) was held virtually Dec 8–10, 2020. The theme of this meeting was “Zooming in to the AIRR Community” connecting the global AIRR research community despite the pandemic for a series of Working Group & Sub-committee presentations, scientific sessions, interactive poster sessions, software tool demonstrations and networking events.

AIRR Community meetings are the premier event for research on adaptive immune-receptor repertoires. They are also the primary location where the AIRR-Community’s Working Groups and Sub-committees come together in one location to discuss how to push standardization in AIRR-sequencing (AIRR-seq) data and analysis forward.  All video recordings can be found here https://www.youtube.com/airrcommunity. All presentations can be found in the AIRR Community Resources section of the website. 

Just as the biology of AIRR is high-dimensional, this meeting’s success was as well!  We gathered some of the numbers that best describe the success of the #AIRRC5 meeting.

  • 1 Keynote speaker: Ignacio Sanz (Emory University School of Medicine, USA)
  • 3 Basic Science Presentations, 3 Biomedical Science Presentations
  • Attendees from 18 countries and 6 continents
  • 161 Registrants 
  • 5 Sponsors 
  • 6 Invited Speakers 
  • 2 Judging Panels 
  • 4 Short Talk Presenters 
  • 28 Poster Presenters 
  • 4 Software Demonstrators 
  • 9 Moderators 
  • 19 Community Presenters 
  • This was the second time a twitter hashtag was used for an AIRR Community Meeting (#AIRRV)
  • We achieved the milestone of more than 100 subscribers for the AIRRC YouTube channel thus enabling a custom YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/airrcommunity 
  • In addition to the main meeting, two free pre-meetings were held with over 175 participants
    • Pre-meeting 1: “AIRR-seq in the Pandemic” co-hosted by the AIRR Community and Tsinghua University in China which took place on December 5th/6th
    • Pre-meeting 2 “AIRR-seq Biological Standards and Workflows“ which was hosted by the Biological Resources Working Group on December 7th.

Filed Under: AIRR Community, Uncategorized Tagged With: Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Community

AIRR-dedicated Issue in the journal Current Opinion in Systems Biology 

December 30, 2020 by jpburckert

Ramit Mehr edited an issue on Systems immunology & host-pathogen interaction Current Opinion on Systems Biology to which many AIRR-C scientists have contributed. The issue encompasses eight original articles on the following topics: 

  1. Development of adaptive immune cells and receptor repertoires from infancy to adulthood, (2) Antigen discovery tools for adaptive immune receptor repertoire research
  2. The adaptive immune receptor repertoire community as a model for FAIR stewardship of big immunology data 
  3. Tools for adaptive immune receptor repertoire sequencing 
  4. Beyond bulk single-chain sequencing: Getting at the whole receptor 
  5. Disease susceptibility genes hidden in plain sight? 
  6. Mining adaptive immune receptor repertoires for biological and clinical information using machine learning 
  7. T cell repertoire sequencing as cancer’s liquid biopsy—can we decode what the immune system is coding? 

Read all articles here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-opinion-in-systems-biology/vol/24/suppl/C.

Filed Under: AIRR Community, Systems Immunology Tagged With: Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Community

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Zooming into the Community III Starts Tomorrow!

May 20, 2025 By Lorissa Corrie

Join us tomorrow for our 10th Anniversary AIRR-C online event! 📢 This virtual two-day meeting marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of the AIRR Community. Join us for a celebration of the AIRR Community and two scientific sessions on “Specificity.” ⚠️ Service announcement: Each registration day is independent, with its own unique Zoom link! […]

New episode of the On AIRR podcast is here!

March 25, 2025 By Lorissa Corrie

In this episode of On AIRR, we welcome Dr. Bjoern Peters, Professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, to discuss the crucial role of high-quality data in AI-driven immunological predictions and diagnostics. Dr. Peters shares his journey from theoretical physics to MHC-binding prediction, leading to his work on the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) — […]

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Call - ComRepo WG
11:00
Thu, June 5, 2025
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Mon, June 16, 2025
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Thu, June 19, 2025
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Recent AIRR Publications

Lees W.D. et al. AIRR Community curation and standardised representation for immunoglobulin and T cell receptor germline sets (Immunoinformatics, 2023)

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