In the latest episode of the On AIRR – An AIRR-C Podcast Series, Dr. Ulrik Stervbo and Dr. Zhaoqing Ding speak with Dr. Corey Watson and Dr. William Lees about the recent work by the Germline Database Working Group of the AIRR-Community. We discuss the challenges in creating a database to hold all relevant and potentially relevant germline information, especially in the light of increased discovery rate through technological advances and improved analysis pipelines. We also reflect on the complexity in handling personalized germline reference sets.

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In the latest episode of the On AIRR – An AIRR-C Podcast Series, Dr. Ulrik Stervbo and Dr. Zhaoqing Ding speak with Alexander Bernier BCL, JD, LLM, a lawyer with expertise in biological data sharing designs, about data protection and data sharing. We discuss the risk of identifying individuals in a biological data set, how this is approached differently in different countries, and possible strategies to ensure data privacy.

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In the latest episode of the On AIRR – An AIRR-C Podcast Series, Dr. Ulrik Stervbo and Dr. Zhaoqing Ding speak with Maxim Zaslavsky (a PhD student at Stanford) and Dr. Scott D. Boyd (Professor of Pathology and of Food Allergy and Immunology at Stanford) about the preprint “Disease diagnostics using machine learning of immune receptors”, available at BioRxiv. The work is led by Maxim Zaslavsky with Scott Boyd the corresponding author. In the manuscript, the authors demonstrate how AIRR-seq and machine learning can be used in disease diagnostics.

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In the latest episode of the On AIRR – An AIRR-C Podcast Series, Dr. Ulrik Stervbo and Dr. Zhaoqing Ding speak with Dr. Charlotte Deane (Professor of Structural Bioinformatics in the Department of Statistics in University of Oxford (UK) and head of the Oxford Protein Informatics Group) about the relevance of including protein structure to study and design antibodies, and the availability of such data. 

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In the latest episode of the On AIRR – An AIRR-C Podcast Series, Dr. Ulrik Stervbo and Dr. Zhaoqing Ding speak with Dr. Xenophon Papademetris (Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University) about the typical regulatory process for software classified as a medical device.

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