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One of the goals of both the AIRR Community<\/a> and the iReceptor Project is to make it easy for researchers to find, share, compare, and reuse AIRR-seq data (antibody\/B-cell and T-cell receptor repertoires). Two main initiatives developed by the AIRR Community support these goals. First, the MiAIRR Standard<\/a> is a set of standards and protocols for curating and sharing these complicated and immense repertoire repositories. Second, the AIRR Data Commons (ADC)<\/a> is a distributed system of AIRR-seq data repositories that follow these standards, thus utilizing a common data model, a common query language, and common interoperability formats for storage, query, and downloading of AIRR-seq data. The iReceptor project provides a science gateway that makes that sharing a reality for our users. Our implementation consists of three fundamental components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. a database software stack for storing AIRR-seq data (the iReceptor Turnkey Repository),<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. a web based API for querying such an AIRR-seq repository (the iReceptor Web API), and<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. the iReceptor Scientific Gateway, a scientific web portal which can query one or more distributed AIRR-seq repositories to find, explore, and analyze the data in those repositories.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Rather than create a single, large repository, our goal is to federate many large, distributed repositories. The two driving reasons for the distributed repository approach are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. It is not practical to expect a single central repository to scale to the size that will be required by the continually growing number of AIRR-seq studies and the amount of AIRR-seq data that those studies generate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Due to data privacy and ethics requirements, data stewards need to control and manage their own data and will be reluctant to upload their data to an external repository.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Rather than a small number of large repositories, we envision many (10s or 100s) of institutional AIRR-seq data repositories, each managed and controlled by a local data steward, connected together in what we call the “AIRR Data Commons”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      One of the goals of both the AIRR Community and the iReceptor Project is to make it easy for researchers to find, share, compare, and reuse AIRR-seq data (antibody\/B-cell and T-cell receptor repertoires). Two main initiatives developed by the AIRR Community support these goals. 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