Data, knowledge, and tools within the AIRR Knowledge Commons (AKC) are provided as a public resource. When publishing or presenting AKC content or research findings derived from it, please cite the AKC, the data repository contributing data to the AKC, and the original data generators, as appropriate. These citations help us demonstrate to our funders that these resources are worth funding.

  • Please cite the AKC using the URL: https://airr-knowledge.org
  • If you are citing the AKC component repositories, list for each below:

Christley S, Aguiar A, Blanck G, Breden F, Bukhari SAC, Busse CE, Jaglale J, Harikrishnan SL, Laserson U, Peters B, Rocha A, Schramm CA, Taylor S, Vander Heiden JA, Zimonja B, Watson CT, Corrie B, Cowell LG. The ADC API: A Web API for the Programmatic Query of the AIRR Data Commons. Front Big Data. 2020 Jun 17;3:22. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2020.00022. PMID: 33693395; PMCID: PMC7931935.

Christley S, Scarborough W, Salinas E, Rounds WH, Toby IT, Fonner JM, Levin MK, Kim M, Mock SA, Jordan C, Ostmeyer J, Buntzman A, Rubelt F, Davila ML, Monson NL, Scheuermann RH, Cowell LG. VDJServer: A Cloud-Based Analysis Portal and Data Commons for Immune Repertoire Sequences and Rearrangements. Front Immunol. 2018 May 8;9:976. https://doi.org//10.3389/fimmu.2018.00976. PMID: 29867956; PMCID: PMC5953328.

Corrie et al., iReceptor: A platform for querying and analyzing antibody/B-cell and T-cell receptor repertoire data across federated repositories, Immunol Rev, . 2018 Jul;284(1):24-41. https://doi.org/10.1111/imr.12666. PMID:29944754.

William Lees, Christian E Busse, Martin Corcoran, Mats Ohlin, Cathrine Scheepers, Frederick A Matsen, Gur Yaari, Corey T Watson, The AIRR Community, Andrew Collins, Adrian J Shepherd, OGRDB: a reference database of inferred immune receptor genes, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 48, Issue D1, 08 January 2020, Pages D964–D970, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz822

Aviv Omer, Or Shemesh, Ayelet Peres, Pazit Polak, Adrian J Shepherd, Corey T Watson, Scott D Boyd, Andrew M Collins, William Lees, Gur Yaari, VDJbase: an adaptive immune receptor genotype and haplotype database, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 48, Issue D1, 08 January 2020, Pages D1051–D1056, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz872

Vita R, Mahajan S, Overton JA, Dhanda SK, Martini S, Cantrell JR, Wheeler DK, Sette A, Peters B. The Immune Epitope Database (IEDB): 2018 update. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Oct 24. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky1006. PMID: 30357391; PMCID: PMC6324067.