AIRR Community
Published July 7, 2025 | Version v1.6.0
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AIRR Standards

Creators

  • 1. German Cancer Research Center
  • 2. St. John's University
  • 3. Luxembourg Institute of Health
  • 4. UT Southwestern Medical Center
  • 5. iReceptor / Simon Fraser University
  • 6. University of Haifa
  • 7. Frankfurt Cancer Institute
  • 8. Yale University School of Medicine
  • 9. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • 10. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • 11. Birkbeck College, University of London
  • 12. University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
  • 13. Stanford University School of Medicine
  • 14. University of Louisville

Description

The AIRR Community Standards are developed to facilitate FAIR data sharing in the field of Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire (AIRR) sequencing. They currently encompass a data schema, a data representation, an API definition, code libraries for Python and R and the corresponding documentation

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Additional details

Describes
Journal article: 10.1038/ni.3873 (DOI)
Journal article: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01418 (DOI)
Journal article: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02206 (DOI)
Journal article: 10.3389/fdata.2020.00022 (DOI)
Is part of
Software: 10.5281/zenodo.1185414 (DOI)
Is supplement to
Software: https://github.com/airr-community/airr-standards/tree/v1.4.0 (URL)

Funding

European Commission
iReceptor Plus - ARCHITECTURE AND TOOLS FOR THE QUERY OF ANTIBODY AND T-CELL RECEPTOR SEQUENCING DATA REPOSITORIES FOR ENABLING IMPROVED PERSONALIZED MEDICINE AND IMMUNOTHERAPY 825821

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/airr-community/airr-standards

References

  • Rubelt F et al. Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Community recommendations for sharing immune-repertoire sequencing data. Nat Immunol 18:1274 (2017)
  • Breden F et al. Reproducibility and Reuse of Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Data. Front Immunol 8:1418 (2017)
  • Vander Heiden JA et al. AIRR Community Standardized Representations for Annotated Immune Repertoires. Front Immunol 9:2206 (2018)
  • Christley S et al. The ADC API: A Web API for the Programmatic Query of the AIRR Data Commons. Front Big Data 3:22 (2020)