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October 1998

IMGT Scientific Chart - IMGT Repertoire - New Interface

Marie-Paule Lefranc
IMGT Initiator and coordinator
Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire, LIGM
UPR CNRS 1142, IGH, 141 rue de la Cardonille
34396 Montpellier Cedex 5 - France
Tél. : +33 (0)4 11 75 97 28 /+33 (0)4 11 75 97 29 - Fax : +33 (0)4 34 35 99 01

Key words IMGT . Repertoire . Immunoglobulin . T cell Receptor

IMGT®, the international ImMunoGeneTics database, announces:

IMGT Scientific Chart: A description of IMGT standardized rules to ensure the highest quality data (unique numbering, gene name nomenclature, FR-IMGT and CDR-IMGT regions,...)
IMGT Repertoire: IMGT expertised immunoglobulin and T cell receptor gene tables ("colliers de perles" representations, alignments and tables of alleles, protein displays,...)
New IMGT/LIGM-DB interface and eight choices to see results (IMGT annotations, IMGT flat files, coding regions with protein translation, external references,...)

Also new:

the Mouse (Mus musculus) germline IGKV gene table
IMGT reference sequences in FASTA format, accessible from IMGT Repertoire and from IMGT/DNAPLOT search page, for downloading

IMGT is freely accessible at http://www.imgt.org

Flash on IMGT
> 27 000 Ig and TcR sequences of 81 species
> 30 000 sites connected since 1st of january 96
> 5 000 requests a week

Correspondence
Prof. Marie-Paule Lefranc
IMGT Initiator and coordinator
Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire, LIGM
UPR CNRS 1142, IGH, 141 rue de la Cardonille
34396 Montpellier Cedex 5 - France
Tél. : +33 (0)4 11 75 97 28 /+33 (0)4 11 75 97 29 - Fax : +33 (0)4 99 61 99 01

References
Lefranc, M.-P., "Unique database numbering for immunogenetic analysis", Immunology Today, 18, 509 (1997).
Lefranc, M.-P., "IMGT Locus on Focus: A New Section of Experimental and Clinical Immunogenetics", Exp. Clin. Immunogenet., 15, 1-7, (1998)
Pallarés, N. et al., "IMGT Locus on Focus: The Human Immunoglobulin Lambda Variable (IGLV) Genes and Joining (IGLJ) Segments", Exp. Clin. Immunogenet., 15, 8-18, (1998)
Lefranc, M.-P. et al., "IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics database", Nucleic Acids Research, 26, 297-303, (1998).

IMGT NEWS

October 1998

IMGT Scientific Chart - IMGT Repertoire - New Interface