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The 3 day AIRR Community Special Event – Response to COVID-19 starts today. Join the Community and learn more about Leveraging AIRR-sequencing Data to Inform the Biology of COVID-19. Contact meetings@AIRRC.antibodysociety.org to register. Visit the event page for the complete program.
Follow the event on Twitter #airrcovid.
Leveraging AIRR-sequencing data to inform the Biology of COVID-19
The AIRR Community is pleased to announce a 3-day special event focused on AIRR-sequencing data and COVID-19. Due to the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for rapid scientific progress, this virtual meeting will provide recent analyses of the B- and T-cell receptor repertoires of COVID-19 patients. In addition, we will explore a key objective of the AIRR Community in the context of the pandemic: How the scientific response to the COVID-19 pandemic might be leveraged to promote the implementation of standards for AIRR-seq data.
Tuesday – Thursday, September 8th – 10th, 8:00 – 11:00 PDT / 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT / 5:00 – 8:00 PM CEST
Full event details found here.
The AIRR-C website now has a calendar plugin that displays meeting times of Working Groups and Sub-committees as well as other interesting events such as AIRR-C-relevant conferences and symposia. The calendar contains the connection details ensuring a low barrier for joining meetings by AIRR-C members.
On behalf of the AIRR Community Executive Sub-committee, we announce the AIRR Community Membership Campaign for 2020-2021. Current AIRR-C members are now considered “Legacy” members until they pay their annual dues. Please support the AIRR Community Membership Campaign today.
For further information about our ongoing initiatives, Working Groups, Sub-committees and membership benefits follow this link. AIRR Community Membership levels for 2020/2021 include:
Thank you for paying your membership dues and for all that you do for the AIRR Community!
Nina Luning Prak, MD, PhD
AIRR Community Executive Sub-committee Chair
SONAR (v3) (Schramm et al. Front Immunol, 2016.) is the first tool 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.
