The Minimal Standards Working Group, and indeed, the entire AIRR Community, has published a set of recommendations for the Minimal Information required for sharing of Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire (MiAIRR) Data in Nature Immunology – https://www.nature.com/articles/ni.3873
Third AIRR Community Meeting announced
The Third AIRR Community Meeting will be held December 3-6 at the NIH Fishers Lane facility. Please visit the Third AIRR Community Meeting page for more information.
Second AIRR Community Meeting June 27 – 30, 2016
The AIRR-II Community Meeting was held 27-30 June 2016 at the NIH Fishers Lane facility. Please visit the Introduction and Agenda page for more information and click on videos for recordings of the six sessions at NIH.
AIRR Community: “Look Ma, In the News Again!”
Another example of the critical importance of data sharing in immune profiling and the need for data standards in the recent editorial “No Sample Left Behind” in Nature Biotechnology, 33(10). Explicit mention of the AIRR Community May Meeting (through a link to PDF of the schedule) means that not only do people think this is important, but the AIRR Community is starting to see some recognition.
I love this quote from the article: “For the moment, however, cross-insitutional efforts remain the exception rather than the rule. For immune profiling research to truly fulfill its potential, now is the time for the community to come together and agree on standardized sample collection and storage and the benefits of pooling data. We must open up the freezers and unlock the data. No sample should be left behind.“
AIRR Community efforts mentioned in Nature
The Nature article “The Cell Menagerie: Human Immune Profiling” by Marissa Fessenden (Nature V. 525, Sep 17, 2015) discusses the importance of vaccines and understanding the immune response. A large number of the groups mentioned in the article are key players in the AIRR Community, including G. Georgiou (UT Austin), Steve Kleinstein (Yale), Lindsay Cowell (UT Southwestern Medical School), and Jamie Scott (Simon Fraser University). An unintended shout out to the AIRR Community’s work!
