Reposted by Nick BorcherdingGregor Sturm @grst.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Happy to announce the release of IggyTop, a metadatabase for immune receptor–epitope interactions. It's integrated with scirpy v0.24 so you can readily use it to annotate your single-cell TCR datasets. iggytop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ 198
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingGabriel Victora @victora.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Renewing my yearly bet on Cooper/Miller for the Nobels. One might think that I would learn after being wrong so many times, but one would be mistaken. laskerfoundation.org/winners/b-an...laskerfoundation.orgB and T cells—the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system - Lasker FoundationFor their discovery of the two distinct classes of lymphocytes, B and T cells – a monumental achievement that provided the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system and launched the course of... 6478
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Excited to present at the ASHI Annual Meeting next week on Predicting TCR Specificity in the Age of Single-Cell Sequencing. See you on Monday! ashiannualmeeting2025.eventscribe.net/agenda.asp?p... 060
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Excited to announce ImmReferent - A one stop shop for getting and handling IMGT immune receptor and HLA sequences in R. github.com/BorchLab/imm...github.comGitHub - BorchLab/immReferent: An Interface for Immune Receptor and HLA Gene IMGT Reference DataAn Interface for Immune Receptor and HLA Gene IMGT Reference Data - BorchLab/immReferent 0103
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Anyone interested in medical/laboratory information systems and language models - Check out the 2025 ADLM Data Science Challenge: github.com/myADLM/ADLM-...github.comGitHub - myADLM/ADLM-2025-Data-Challenge: Build an AI Tool for Extracting Information from Laboratory DocumentationBuild an AI Tool for Extracting Information from Laboratory Documentation - myADLM/ADLM-2025-Data-Challenge 030
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Researching at the intersection of HLA and viral infections - check out the special issue from Viruses. www.mdpi.com/journal/viru... 131
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 17/07/2025scRepertoire now supports exporting clones directly into the immunarch workflow. Removing barriers like it's an anti-PD1. vignette: www.borch.dev/uploads/scre... 071
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingKelvin (Zewen) Tuong @kelvintuong.bsky.social · 01/07/2025dandelionR: Single-cell immune repertoire trajectory analysis in R is out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Checkout our package at github.com/tuonglab/dan... and on Bioconductor 3.21 onwards! Thanks to everyone involved! @thehumanborch.bsky.socialsciencedirect.comdandelionR: Single-cell immune repertoire trajectory analysis in RIntegration of single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and adaptive immune receptor (AIR) sequencing (scVDJ-seq) is extremely powerful in studying lymp… 081
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingTerkild Brink Buus @terkild.bsky.social · 19/06/2025❗How can a cancer exploit its environment and still resist treatment? ✅The answer: co-existing malignant subclones. Let me walk you through our latest study investigating how divergent evolution drives adaptability, aggressiveness, and drug resistance of T cell cancer. 1/🧵 doi.org/10.1158/2159... 2249
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Just resubmited the scRepertoire manuscript. Favorite part of the reviewer suggestions was benchmarking - scRepertoire v2 (yellow) can assign > 1 million TCR clonotypes in 30 seconds! Let's not talk about scRepertoire v1 (green line). Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 091
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Ibex update! Our single-cell BCR deep learning package just got a major overhaul! ✅ Now supports CDR3 & full CDR1/2/3 embeddings ✅ Human & mouse models available ✅ Trained on 2–10M unique sequences for high accuracy Check it out! github.com/BorchLab/Ibexgithub.comGitHub - BorchLab/Ibex: Using BCR and expression for sequence embeddingUsing BCR and expression for sequence embedding . Contribute to BorchLab/Ibex development by creating an account on GitHub. 0101
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 15/01/2025If you are interested in HLA, adaptive immunity, or viral infections, please see the special issue I am guest editor for: www.mdpi.com/journal/viru...mdpi.comHuman Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) in Viral InfectionsSpecial Issue in journal Viruses: Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) in Viral Infections 031
Reposted by Nick Borcherdingmheming.bsky.social @mheming.bsky.social · 10/01/20251/2 Every #rstats user, interested in #reproducible analysis should try the new version of #rix. It's much more robust than just using renv. With this update rix allows to use date specific versions and improves using github packages. bsky.app/profile/brod... 195
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 31/12/2024scRepertoire 2: Enhanced and Efficient Toolkit for Single-Cell Immune Profiling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 24713
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingEdward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 20/12/2024There's a really interesting new paper out in Science for people who care about immunity to flu (which should be everyone because flu is a VERY big problem): www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Here's my thread explaining this work🧵science.orgCoupling antigens from multiple subtypes of influenza can broaden antibody and T cell responsesThe seasonal influenza vaccine contains strains of viruses from distinct subtypes that are grown independently and then combined. However, most individuals exhibit a more robust response to one of the... 1023670
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 19/12/2024Exciting news from Palleon Pharma. Engineered sialidases remove glyco-immune checkpoint ligands from B cells, thereby potentiating antibody-mediated B cell depletion for treatment of autoimmune disease. Clinical studies gearing up in partnership with Henlius Biotech #glycotimebusinesswire.comPalleon Pharmaceuticals and Henlius Collaborate to Advance Glycan Editing as a Treatment for Autoimmune DiseasesPalleon Pharmaceuticals, a company pioneering glyco-immunology drug development to treat autoimmune diseases and cancer, today announced a collaborati 2639
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingJasmine Rowell, PhD @jasminerowell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Our paper has now been published @elife.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 Check it out, especially if you are interested in the TCR repertoire and T cell development in the thymus doi.org/10.7554/eLif...doi.orgDistinct T-cell receptor (TCR) gene segment usage and MHC-restriction between foetal and adult thymusThe foetal thymic T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire is distinct from adult, and it is less governed by MHC-restriction, more closely encoded by genomic sequence with distinct gene-segment usage includi... 2236
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingRita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I could not be more thrilled to announce the Nature Methods @naturemethods.bsky.social Method of the Year is Spatial Proteomics! Please see our editorial as a roadmap to the fantastic content in this special issue! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comMethod of the Year 2024: spatial proteomics - Nature MethodsApproaches for profiling the spatial proteome in tissues are the basis of atlas-scale projects that are delivering on their promise for understanding biological complexity in health and disease. 3614170
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingPieter Meysman @pmeysman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Our massive effort to recontextualize #single #T-cell data is now out in Science Advances! We developed a new system, STEGO, to do a TCR-first analysis, and reanalyzed 12 studies and more than 500 000 individual T-cells. Supported by @cziscience.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1126/scia...doi.orgT cell receptor–centric perspective to multimodal single-cell data analysisT cell receptor–centric perspective improves single-cell analysis. 54916
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingWaggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Rather than immune suppression, CD206+ TAMs recruit a tumor-reactive network of CD8 T cells, cDC1s, and NK cells doi.org/10.1084/jem.... @maxkrummel.bsky.social @jexpmed.bsky.social 0248
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 26/11/2024I had zero luck with grants. People really didn’t get why what I did was important and never figured out how to explain it to them. 612821
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 27/11/2024Cool preprint by Dustin and coworkers on how various T cell engager formats, w/varying geometries/rigidities, impact synapse structure and potency www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgSolution structure and synaptic analyses reveal determinants of bispecific T cell engager potencyBispecific T-cell engagers (TcEs) link T cell receptors to tumor-associated antigens on cancer cells, forming cytotoxic immunological synapses (IS). Close membrane-to-membrane contact (≤13 nm) has bee... 06313
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingPaul Thomas @pgtimmune.bsky.social · 26/11/2024We keep improving TIRTL-seq, see the updated preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)! New additions include: a manual 96-well protocol, code and raw data now available, and successful in vitro validation of EBV and SARS-CoV-2 TCRs.biorxiv.orgTIRTL-seq: Deep, quantitative, and affordable paired TCR repertoire sequencingα/β T cells are key players in adaptive immunity. The specificity of T cells is determined by the sequences of the hypervariable T cell receptor (TCR) α and β chains. Although bulk TCR sequencing offe... 13115
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingJon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov 441198491
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 22/11/2024This #glycotime work by @virusesimmunity.bsky.social is intriguing; terminal GlcNAc is a viral epitope recognized by Abs that keep endogenous retroviruses at bay. Must be something about the context of that GlcNAc, would love to see some followup structural biology. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgA B cell screen against endogenous retroviruses identifies glycan-reactive IgM that recognizes a broad array of enveloped virusesProfiling of ERV-reactive B-1 cells in mice reveals natural antibodies against terminal N-acetylglucosamine on multiple viral envelope proteins. 14310
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024VDJ space-based trajectory analysis for single-cell immune profiling is coming to R! Check the dandelionR package (in progress): github.com/tuonglab/dan... Original Publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 050
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingDhuvi Karthikeyan @dkarthikey1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024My first Skeetorial! 💻🧬TCR-TRANSLATE - A new framework for thinking about the TCR:pMHC specificity problem. TLDR: We pretrained LLMs on ~8M TCR & pMHC seqs Finetuned on sparse pMHC->TCR pair data Validated CDR3b sequences to unseen antigens >> random performance on IMMREP2023 "private" antigens 13014
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Congrats to Qile and the R package: APackOfTheClones to visualize single-cell immune profiling! Fully compatible with scRepertoire too! 050
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingJamie Heather @jamieheather.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Inspired by @rodrahimi.bsky.social 's noble efforts linking immunologists together over here, let's try and get more specifically TCR/BCR/AIRR/repertoire chat going with this starter park go.bsky.app/Gi2dcGd Drop me a beep to get added or suggest others! 217029
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingDillon Corvino @eomesodermin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I am excited to share our latest paper. We profiled CD8+ TILs from HPV- HNSCC patients using scRNA/TCRseq. In addition, we performed an ex vivo stimulation of cells to capture their transcriptional response. 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comType I Interferon Drives a Cellular State Inert to TCR‐Stimulation and Could Impede Effective T‐Cell Differentiation in CancerMultimodal single-cell RNA sequencing identified a population of CD8+ T cells elevated in tumor tissue enriched for interferon-stimulated genes (ISG). These ISG cells are clonally related to a popula... 14611
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingSantiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 15/11/2024in case this is useful to someone in this massive platform migration: a starting pack for single-cell omics computational methods go.bsky.app/GmS1cHgo.bsky.appsingle-cell computational methodsJoin the conversation 159847
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 14/11/2024The one science tweet that I still think about regularly, posting here for posterity. 050
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingAlex Rubinsteyn @alexr.bsky.social · 13/11/2024New de-novo TCR design preprint from @dkarthikey1.bsky.social just dropped: TCR-TRANSLATE: Conditional Generation of Real Antigen Specific T-cell Receptor Sequences www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 04712
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 12/11/2024New TCR + Expression multimodal integration approach for single-cell sequencing. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....embopress.orgIdentifying T-cell clubs by embracing the local harmony between TCR and gene expressions | Molecular Systems BiologyimageimageTCRclub integrates scRNA-seq and scTCR-seq data by local harmony to identify functionally similar T cell groups, termed ‘clubs’, enhancing the understanding of T cell diversity. TCRclub mod... 050
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 16/07/2024New R package immApex for deep learning with immune receptor sequences: repo: github.com/ncborcherdin... vignette: www.borch.dev/uploads/scre... 010
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 17/11/2023scRepertoire v2 beta is out and stable, Rccp integration from means its 30x faster. Please check it out, kick the tires, find the edge cases: GitHub: github.com/ncborcherdin... website: www.borch.dev/uploads/scre... 173
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 03/10/2023scRepertoire v2 is coming - reach out if you have a feature request and even better, if you want to contribute (and authorship!!). New feature - clonal-based rarefaction analysis. Find out more at: github.com/ncborcherdin... 032
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Trex now has 16 total CNN models for single-cell TRA and TRB chains + geometric transformations. Next stop, dual chains! 020
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingSri Krishna (Krish) @tellkrish.bsky.social · 19/09/2023🧪🔬🦠🩺Pls share. We are evaluating postdoc candidates with interests computational or experimental immunology, or tumor biology, immunotherapy, T cell immunology, or genome engineering. ccr.cancer.gov/careers/post... 035
Reposted by Nick BorcherdingAlex Rubinsteyn @alexr.bsky.social · 18/09/2023#HiSciSky I work on machine learning x genomics x immunology for personalized cancer vaccine design. Background: CS PhD (ML + GPU compilers), pivoted to biomedicine, helped start 3 neoantigen vaccine trials. Now at UNC (pirl.unc.edu) trying to improve basic design of neoantigen therapies. 🧪🧬🖥️⚕️pirl.unc.eduPersonalized Immunotherapy Research Lab 1242
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 17/09/2023Preprint for Trex is up, check out a framework for combining sc-GEX and TCR data - www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3.... Like Ibex, the CNN encoders for TCR sequences are up and integrated into the Seurat/Bioconductor pipeline at github.com/ncborcherdin... 1102
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 14/09/2023New version of Ibex up later today for single-cell GEX and BCR sequencing. Now at 16 convolutional neural network-based autoencoders trained on over 1.5 million heavy and light chain sequences with more to come: github.com/ncborcherdin... 151
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 12/09/2023Coder life hack - loop testing parameters now auto-idents the step it is on and emails me the top 10 iterations when it is done: 010
Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 10/09/2023First few day on bsky - I am Nick a MD/PhD working on developing computational frameworks to bring TCR sequencing into the clinic at Omniscope. My free time is mostly spent running after my daughter and writing open-source R packages for single-cell sequencing. Excited to meet new people here! 1252