Practical guidelines for B-cell receptor repertoire sequencing analysis

Genome Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Yaari, Gur ^a   Kleinstein, Steven H ^b,c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL EXPANSION; CELL LINEAGE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VDJ EXON; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84947792008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-015-0243-2     Document Type: Review

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