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Software Working Group

To make it easy to do rigorous analysis of AIRR-seq data.

Achievements

We have defined a standard for AIRR-Seq software tools. We will promote this over the next year, as a way of encouraging inter-operation and adoption of AIRR standard protocols by providing community support and publicity to compliant tools. We have also started work (in collaboration with the Germline Database Working Group) on an initiative to assess the biological credibility of an AIRR-Seq repertoire, and to identify common technical errors that can occur during its preparation, which can be heard to spot from read quality annotations and other technical measures commonly available today.

Goals

For 2022-2024:

  • Completion of RepCred
  • Alignment of benchmarking and gold-standards dataset with PrecisionFDA activities
  • Surveying our AIRR-C membership for key focus areas (particular emphasis on industry needs)
  • Supporting the Communications SC industry initiative by drawing on members’ knowledge of the tools marketplace

Long-term vision and how WG products integrate with the AIRR-C mission:

The purpose of our working group is to encourage practices that enable software tools to work, and to work with one another: this dovetails with the AIRR-C mission to improve methods and standards. We aim to promote awareness of AIRR standards within the software tools community, and to provide a forum through which software tools developers can discuss and progress topics of mutual interest.

Resources

  • Compliance Checklist for AIRR Software Tools
  • AIRR Software WG – List of Tools Certified as Compliant
  • Gold standard datasets

Members

Co-Leaders: William Lees and Chaim Schramm

Members: Bryan Briney, Brian Corrie, Noah Yann Lee, Georgina Leslie, William Lees (Co-lead) Susanna Marquez, Luke Myers, Mats Ohlin, Chaim Schramm (Co-lead), Adrian Shepherd, and Wenming Xiao.

Contact Us

software@airr-community.org

AIRR Community News

Zooming into the Community III — A Milestone Virtual Gathering!

June 3, 2025 By Lorissa Corrie

On May 21–22, 2025, the AIRR Community came together for our third “Zooming into the Community” virtual meeting, celebrating 10 years of collaborative science and innovation in immune receptor research. 📊 Attendance Highlights: Day 1: 106 registered / 68 attendees Day 2: 131 registered / 82 attendees This year’s mid-cycle event, themed “Specificity”, sparked critical […]

Register now for the June 26th AIRR Community Seminar Series

June 3, 2025 By Lorissa Corrie

Registration for the June 26th (4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CET) AIRR-C Seminar Series session is open. Following the usual format of the series, an established and an early career scientist will discuss their AIRR-seq related research. Rohit Singh, Duke University, USA will present “Deciphering Structure-Function Convergence in B-Cell Receptor Repertoires with AbMAP.” Next, Joshua […]

AIRR Community WG Calls

All times are in ET (Americas/New York)

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Call - Standards WG
12:00
Thu, June 12, 2025
Call - Standards WG
14:00
Mon, June 16, 2025
AIRR-C Executive Council Meeting
11:00
Thu, June 19, 2025
Call - Comms & Meetings SC
12:00
Fri, June 20, 2025
AIRR Community Seminar Series
10:00
Thu, June 26, 2025

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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