scholarly journals The pipeline repertoire of Ig-Seq analysis

Author(s):  
Laura López-Santibáñez-Jácome ◽  
Selma Eréndira Avendaño-Vázquez ◽  
Carlos Fabián Flores-Jasso

With the advent of high-throughput sequencing of immunoglobulins (Ig-Seq), the understanding of antibody repertoires and its dynamics among individuals and populations has become and exiting area of research. There are an increasing number of computational tools that aid in every step of the immune repertoire characterization. However, since not all tools function identically, every pipeline has its unique rationale and capabilities, creating a rich blend of useful features that may appear intimidating for newcomer laboratories with the desire to plunge into immune repertoire analysis to expand and improve their research; hence, all pipeline strengths and differences may not seem evident. In this review we provide an organized list of the current set of computational tools, focusing on their most attractive features and differences in order to carry out the characterization of antibody repertoires so that the reader better decides a strategic approach for the experimental design, and computational analyses of immune repertoires.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura López-Santibáñez-Jácome ◽  
Selma Eréndira Avendaño-Vázquez ◽  
Carlos Fabián Flores-Jasso

With the advent of high-throughput sequencing of immunoglobulins (Ig-Seq), the understanding of antibody repertoires and its dynamics among individuals and populations has become and exiting area of research. There are an increasing number of computational tools that aid in every step of the immune repertoire characterization. However, since not all tools function identically, every pipeline has its unique rationale and capabilities, creating a rich blend of useful features that may appear intimidating for newcomer laboratories with the desire to plunge into immune repertoire analysis to expand and improve their research; hence, all pipeline strengths and differences may not seem evident. In this review we provide an organized list of the current set of computational tools, focusing on their most attractive features and differences in order to carry out the characterization of antibody repertoires so that the reader better decides a strategic approach for the experimental design, and computational analyses of immune repertoires.


2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anke Fähnrich ◽  
Moritz Krebbel ◽  
Normann Decker ◽  
Martin Leucker ◽  
Felix D. Lange ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Quentin Marcou ◽  
Thierry Mora ◽  
Aleksandra M. Walczak

Author(s):  
Leho Tedersoo ◽  
Mohammad Bahram ◽  
Lucie Zinger ◽  
Henrik Nilsson ◽  
Peter Kennedy ◽  
...  

The development of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems. Here we provide an overview about current best practices in metabarcoding analysis of fungal communities, from experimental design through molecular and computational analyses. By re-analysing published datasets, we find that operational taxonomic units (OTUs) outperform amplified sequence variants (ASVs) in recovering fungal diversity, which is particularly evident for long markers. Additionally, analysis of the full-length ITS region allows more accurate taxonomic placement of fungi and other eukaryotes compared with the ITS2 subregion. We conclude that metabarcoding analyses of fungi are especially promising for co-analyses with the functional metagenomic or transcriptomic data, integrating fungi in the entire microbiome, recovery of novel fungal lineages and ancient organisms as well as barcoding of old specimens including type material.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quentin Marcou ◽  
Thierry Mora ◽  
Aleksandra M. Walczak

High throughput immune repertoire sequencing is promising to lead to new statistical diagnostic tools for medicine and biology. Successful implementations of these methods require a correct characterization, analysis and interpretation of these datasets. We present IGoR - a new comprehensive tool that takes B or T-cell receptors sequence reads and quantitatively characterizes the statistics of receptor generation from both cDNA and gDNA. It probabilistically annotates sequences and its modular structure can investigate models of increasing biological complexity for different organisms. For B-cells IGoR returns the hypermutation statistics, which we use to reveal co-localization of hypermutations along the sequence. We demonstrate that IGoR outperforms existing tools in accuracy and estimate the sample sizes needed for reliable repertoire characterization.


Author(s):  
Prem Bhusal ◽  
A K M Mubashwir Alam ◽  
Keke Chen ◽  
Ning Jiang ◽  
Jun Xiao

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