A novel approach to T-cell receptor beta chain (TCRB) repertoire encoding using lossless string compression

Thomas Konstantinovsky, Gur Yaari

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Abstract

Motivation: T-cell receptor beta chain (TCRB) repertoires are crucial for understanding immune responses. However, their high diversity and complexity present significant challenges in representation and analysis. The main motivation of this study is to develop a unified and compact representation of a TCRB repertoire that can efficiently capture its inherent complexity and diversity and allow for direct inference. Results: We introduce a novel approach to TCRB repertoire encoding and analysis, leveraging the Lempel-Ziv 76 algorithm. This approach allows us to create a graph-like model, identify-specific sequence features, and produce a new encoding approach for an individual’s repertoire. The proposed representation enables various applications, including generation probability inference, informative feature vector derivation, sequence generation, a new measure for diversity estimation, and a new sequence centrality measure. The approach was applied to four large-scale public TCRB sequencing datasets, demonstrating its potential for a wide range of applications in big biological sequencing data.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberbtad426
JournalBioinformatics
Volume39
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2023

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