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immReferent

An Interface for Immune Receptor and HLA Gene Reference Data

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.0.0

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3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release)

Provides a consistent interface for downloading, storing, and accessing immune receptor (TCR/BCR) and HLA sequences from IMGT, IPD-IMGT/HLA, and OGRDB (AIRR-C). Supports export to popular analysis tools including MiXCR, TRUST4, Cell Ranger, and IgBLAST. This package serves as a core dependency for immunogenomics packages, ensuring reliable and high-quality sequence access with local caching for reproducibility.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.immReferent

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("immReferent")

Details

MaintainerNick Borcherding <ncborch@gmail.com>
AuthorNick Borcherding [aut, cre]
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
URLhttps://github.com/BorchLab/immReferent/
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/BorchLab/immReferent/issues
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsAnnotation, Sequencing, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/immReferent/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("immReferent"):

Nick Borcherding. immReferent: An Interface for Immune Receptor and HLA Gene Reference Data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.immReferent, R package version 1.0.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/immReferent.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Documentation

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packageimmReferent_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)immReferent_1.0.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)immReferent_1.0.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)immReferent_1.0.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.5.0)

Imports: Biostrings, httr, jsonlite, methods, rvest, tibble, yaml

Suggests: BiocManager, BiocStyle, knitr, mockery, spelling, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0), withr

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (1): immApex