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VDJ-Insights: simplifying the annotation of genomic IG and TCR regions

Ott, S. E.; Le, G. N.; Mohammadi, S. J.; Mittertreiner, J.; Pasini, E. M.; Bontrop, R. E.; de Groot, N. G.; Bruijnesteijn, J.

2025-08-20 genetics
10.1101/2025.08.15.670470 bioRxiv
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Accurate annotation of germline immunoglobulin (IG) and T cell receptor (TCR) loci is critical for understanding adaptive immunity. VDJ-Insights provides a user-friendly software package for characterizing these complex immune regions. In addition, it assesses gene segment functionality, identifies recombination signal sequences (RSS), and annotates complementary-determining regions 1 and 2 (CDR1, CDR2). VDJ-Insights achieved over 99% concordance with curated annotations from multiple species, outperforming existing annotation tools. When applied to 95 haplotypes from the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, VDJ-Insights identified 652 and 275 novel IG and TCR alleles, respectively, highlighting its scalability for large immunogenetic studies.

Published in Bioinformatics (predicted rank #6) · training set

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