Quantitative assessment of the robustness of next-generation sequencing of antibody variable gene repertoires from immunized mice

BMC Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Greiff, Victor ^a   Menzel, Ulrike ^a   Haessler, Ulrike ^a   Cook, Skylar C ^a   Friedensohn, Simon ^a   Khan, Tarik A ^a   Pogson, Mark ^a   Hellmann, Ina ^a   Reddy, Sai T ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LIBRARY; ANTIBODY SECRETING CELL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; MOUSE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CLONE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; PROCEDURES; VDJ RECOMBINATION;

ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CLONE CELLS; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; FEMALE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE, INBRED BALB C; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; V(D)J RECOMBINATION;

EID: 84923870910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12865-014-0040-5     Document Type: Article

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