2013
November
Congratulations to Derek Middleton on receiving the
Distinguished Scientist Award at this year's American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics meeting!
Congratulations to Steven Mack who will be starting as the new
Editor-In-Chief of Human Immunology in 2014!
The IDAWG, the Immunogenomic Next Generation Sequencing Data Consortium, and the ASHI Scientific Affairs Committee have submitted a
letter of comment on the
Draft NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy.
MIRING (Minimum Information for Reporting Immunogenomic NGS Genotyping), a draft MIBBI standard for reporting NGS genotype data for
immunogenomic loci was presented at the Immunogenomic Next Generation Sequencing Data Consortium
meeting on November 17, prior to the ASHI meeting.
July
The paper describing the Genotype List (GL) String format for lossless reporting of allele and genotype ambiguity for HLA and KIR genotyping data was published in Tissue Antigens. The GL String format is used by the GL Service for registering and returning HLA genotype data.
Milius RP, Mack SJ, Hollenbach JA, Pollack J, Heuer ML, Gragert L, Spellman S, Guethlein LA, Trachtenberg EA, Cooley S, Bochtler W, Mueller CR, Robinson J, Marsh SGE, Maiers M.
Genotype List String: a grammar for describing HLA and KIR genotyping results in a text string.
Tissue Antigens. 2013: 82(2):106-112. DOI: 10.1111/tan.12150.
March
The first update the Common and Well-Documented (CWD) catalogue (CWD 2.0.0) was published in Tissue Antigens.
Mack SJ, Cano P, Hollenbach JA, He J, Hurley CK, Middleton D, Moraes ME, Pereira SE, Kempenich JH, Reed EF, Setterholm M, Smith AG, Tilanus MG, Torres M, Varney MD, Voorter CE, Fischer GF, Fleischhauer K, Goodridge D, Klitz W, Little AM, Maiers M, Marsh SG, Müller CR, Noreen H, Rozemuller EH, Sanchez-Mazas A, Senitzer D, Trachtenberg E, Fernandez-Vina M. Tissue Antigens. 2013: 81(4):194-203.
Common and well-documented HLA alleles: 2012 update to the CWD catalogue.
Tissue Antigens. 2013: 81(4):194-203. DOI: 10.1111/tan.12093.
February
The report describing the IDAWG 16th Workshop Immunogenomic Data-Management Methods project was published in the International Journal of Immunogenetics.
Hollenbach JA, Holcomb C, Hurley CK, Mabdouly A, Maiers M, Noble JA, Robinson J, Schmidt AH, Shi L, Turner V, Yao Y, Mack SJ.
16(th) IHIW: Immunogenomic Data-Management Methods. Report from the Immunogenomic Data Analysis Working Group (IDAWG).
Int J Immunogenet. 2013: 40(1):46-53. doi: 10.1111/iji.12026.
January
The IDAWG Survey of Immunogenetic Data Management and Analysis Methods is now closed. We thank everyone who completed the survey for their input and participation in this project.