immunotation

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.immunotation    

Tools for working with diverse immune genes

Bioconductor version: Release (3.15)

MHC (major histocompatibility complex) molecules are cell surface complexes that present antigens to T cells. The repertoire of antigens presented in a given genetic background largely depends on the sequence of the encoded MHC molecules, and thus, in humans, on the highly variable HLA (human leukocyte antigen) genes of the hyperpolymorphic HLA locus. More than 28,000 different HLA alleles have been reported, with significant differences in allele frequencies between human populations worldwide. Reproducible and consistent annotation of HLA alleles in large-scale bioinformatics workflows remains challenging, because the available reference databases and software tools often use different HLA naming schemes. The package immunotation provides tools for consistent annotation of HLA genes in typical immunoinformatics workflows such as for example the prediction of MHC-presented peptides in different human donors. Converter functions that provide mappings between different HLA naming schemes are based on the MHC restriction ontology (MRO). The package also provides automated access to HLA alleles frequencies in worldwide human reference populations stored in the Allele Frequency Net Database.

Author: Katharina Imkeller [cre, aut]

Maintainer: Katharina Imkeller <k.imkeller at dkfz.de>

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.2") and enter:

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

BiocManager::install("immunotation")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("immunotation")

 

HTML	R Script	User guide immunotation
PDF		Reference Manual
Text		NEWS

Details

biocViews	Annotation, BiomedicalInformatics, Genetics, ImmunoOncology, Software
Version	1.4.0
In Bioconductor since	BioC 3.13 (R-4.1) (1.5 years)
License	GPL-3
Depends	R (>= 4.1)
Imports	stringr, ontologyIndex, curl, ggplot2, readr, rvest, tidyr, xml2, maps, rlang
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Suggests	BiocGenerics, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, knitr, testthat, DT
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BugReports	https://github.com/imkeller/immunotation/issues
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package	immunotation_1.4.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary	immunotation_1.4.0.zip
macOS Binary (x86_64)	immunotation_1.4.0.tgz
Source Repository	git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/immunotation
Source Repository (Developer Access)	git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/immunotation
Package Short Url	https://bioconductor.org/packages/immunotation/
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