Characterizing immune repertoires by high throughput sequencing: Strategies and applications

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 581-590

  Calis, Jorg J A ^a   Rosenberg, Brad R ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody diversity; High throughput sequencing; Immune profiling; Immune repertoires; Immunoglobulin diversity; T cell receptor diversity

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; NUCLEOTIDE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; EFFECTOR CELL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 84916207039     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: 14714981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2014.09.004     Document Type: Review

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