TRIg: A robust alignment pipeline for non-regular T-cell receptor and immunoglobulin sequences

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Hung, Sheng Jou ^a   Chen, Yi Lin ^b   Chu, Chia Hung ^a   Lee, Chuan Chun ^b   Chen, Wan Li ^b   Lin, Ya Lan ^b   Lin, Ming Ching ^b   Ho, Chung Liang ^b   Liu, Tsunglin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Immunoglobulin; Next generation sequencing; RACE; Sequence alignment; T cell receptor; VDJ recombination

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ANTIGENS; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GENES;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; RACE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; T CELL RECEPTOR; VDJ RECOMBINATION;

T-CELLS;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; PRIMER DNA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84992467262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-016-1304-2     Document Type: Article

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