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T-cell repertoire analysis and metrics of diversity and clonality.

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The recent developments of high-throughput bulk and single-cell sequencing technologies accelerated the understanding of the complexity of immune repertoire dynamics combined to transcriptomics. Also, profiling of cellular repertoires in health… Click to show full abstract

The recent developments of high-throughput bulk and single-cell sequencing technologies accelerated the understanding of the complexity of immune repertoire dynamics combined to transcriptomics. Also, profiling of cellular repertoires in health or disease requires statistical metrics to capture clonal diversity characterized by clones frequency, repertoire richness and convergence. Here we present the common technologies of bulk and single-cell sequencing of T-cell receptors (TCRs), discuss current knowledge regarding computational tools clustering and predicting specificity of TCR repertoires based on shared structural motifs and review main indices for repertoire diversity and convergence analyses. These tools represent potential biomarkers to decipher the fitness of immune repertoires in diseased or treated patients but also the presages and promises of computational approaches to revolutionize personalized immunotherapy.

Keywords: cell repertoire; repertoire analysis; diversity; repertoire; analysis metrics; cell

Journal Title: Current opinion in biotechnology
Year Published: 2020

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