Citing stitchr

The manuscript describing and validating stitchr is available here:

James M Heather, Matthew J Spindler, Marta Herrero Alonso, Yifang Ivana Shui, David G Millar, David S Johnson, Mark Cobbold, Aaron N Hata, Stitchr: stitching coding TCR nucleotide sequences from V/J/CDR3 information, Nucleic Acids Research, 2022;, gkac190, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac190.

This can be printed in the command line by running stitchr --cite.

The corresponding analyses and related datasets are available here (which used v1.0.0 stitchr scripts).

Licensing information

stitchr and its related scripts and documentation is provided under an MIT license.

Note that I am not affiliated with IMGT, I’m just making use of the data they make publicly available to researchers. As stated on their website and in their publications, IMGT’s policy regarding sharing of their data is that:

“… IMGT® software and data are provided to the academic users and NPO’s (Not for Profit Organization(s)) under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any other use of IMGT® material, from the private sector, needs a financial arrangement with CNRS.”

Please TCR responsibly.