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Front Immunol. 2016 Sep 21;7:372. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2016.00372. eCollection 2016.

SONAR: A High-Throughput Pipeline for Inferring Antibody Ontogenies from Longitudinal Sequencing of B Cell Transcripts.

Frontiers in immunology

Chaim A Schramm, Zizhang Sheng, Zhenhai Zhang, John R Mascola, Peter D Kwong, Lawrence Shapiro

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
  3. Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, MD , USA.
  4. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

PMID: 27708645 PMCID: PMC5030719 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2016.00372

Abstract

The rapid advance of massively parallel or next-generation sequencing technologies has made possible the characterization of B cell receptor repertoires in ever greater detail, and these developments have triggered a proliferation of software tools for processing and annotating these data. Of especial interest, however, is the capability to track the development of specific antibody lineages across time, which remains beyond the scope of most current programs. We have previously reported on the use of techniques such as inter- and intradonor analysis and CDR3 tracing to identify transcripts related to an antibody of interest. Here, we present Software for the Ontogenic aNalysis of Antibody Repertoires (SONAR), capable of automating both general repertoire analysis and specialized techniques for investigating specific lineages. SONAR annotates next-generation sequencing data, identifies transcripts in a lineage of interest, and tracks lineage development across multiple time points. SONAR also generates figures, such as identity-divergence plots and longitudinal phylogenetic "birthday" trees, and provides interfaces to other programs such as DNAML and BEAST. SONAR can be downloaded as a ready-to-run Docker image or manually installed on a local machine. In the latter case, it can also be configured to take advantage of a high-performance computing cluster for the most computationally intensive steps, if available. In summary, this software provides a useful new tool for the processing of large next-generation sequencing datasets and the ontogenic analysis of neutralizing antibody lineages. SONAR can be found at https://github.com/scharch/SONAR, and the Docker image can be obtained from https://hub.docker.com/r/scharch/sonar/.

Keywords: B cell ontogeny; antibody lineage; antibody maturation; antibody repertoire; longitudinal analysis; next-generation sequencing

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