At the Genoa AIRR Community Meeting IV, the official logo of the AIRR Community was ratified. AIRR-C members were able to vote between 3 different variations of the logo.
We thank Fran Breden for her outstanding help with the logo design.
AIRR Community Meeting IV at the University of Genoa – Save the date!
AIRR Community Meeting IV: Bridging the Gaps
11-15 May 2019, University of Genoa, Italy
Information on past AIRR meetings
The theme of this meeting, “Bridging the Gaps” addresses technological gaps between the amounts of accumulated data and our ability to process them, and the need for more involvement of stakeholder communities (industry, clinicians, patent communities) for uptake of the standards developed by the AIRR Community. We have confirmed two outstanding Keynote speakers – Dr. Sai Reddy from ETH Zurich and Dr. Antonio Lanzavecchia from IRB Bellinzona. Two planned panel discussions will include representatives from other institutions and companies that work with AIRR-seq data. In addition, two “challenge” sessions are planned to address the above-mentioned gaps. Two pre-meeting workshops will be available to teach the basics of immunology, and of AIRR-seq data analysis for beginners. Also planned are two poster sessions; and two tool and software demos sessions.
Stay tuned for more information!
The Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Community is now part of The Antibody Society!
We are pleased and proud to announce the incorporation of the Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire (AIRR) Community into the Society.
The AIRR Community is a research-driven group that is organizing and coordinating stakeholders in the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies to study antibody (Ab)/B-cell and T-cell receptor (TcR) repertoires. Recent advances in sequencing technology have made it possible to sample the immune repertoire in exquisite detail. AIRR sequencing has enormous promise for understanding the dynamics of the immune repertoire in vaccinology, infectious disease, autoimmunity, and cancer biology, but also poses substantial challenges. The AIRR Community was established to meet these challenges. The AIRR Community and its associated meetings and workshops are designed to develop standards and recommendations for: 1) obtaining, analyzing, curating and comparing/sharing NGS AIRR datasets; 2) using and validating tools for analyzing AIRR data; 3) relating AIRR NGS datasets to other “big data” sets, such as microarray, flow cytometric, and MiSeq gene-expression data; and 4) legal and ethical issues involving the use and sharing of AIRR data sets derived from human sources. The proceedings of the workshops, including the recommendations and action plans, will be published to benefit the larger scientific community.
To learn more about the AIRR Community and its work, please explore the items listed under the ‘AIRR Community’ tab above.
Third AIRR Community Meeting December 3-6, 2017
The AIRR Community Meeting III was held 3-6 December 2017 at the NIH Fishers Lane facility. Please visit the Introduction and Agenda page for more information and click on videos for recordings of the sessions at NIH.
Marie-Paul Lefranc receiving an award at the meeting.
A group dinner at the meeting.
AIRR Community Overview published in Frontiers of Immunology
The AIRR Community has published a perspective article explaining the importance of “Reproducibility and Reuse of Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Data” and the goals of the AIRR Community in the Frontiers of Immunology – https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2017.01418
