Development and application of a next-generation sequencing protocol and bioinformatics pipeline for the comprehensive analysis of the canine immunoglobulin repertoire

• Jonah N. Cullen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonah N. Cullen, Jolyon Martin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5144-8524

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• Jolyon Martin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonah N. Cullen, Jolyon Martin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Saffron Walden, United Kingdom, PetMedix Ltd, Glenn Berge Building, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2202-4252

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• Albert J. Vilella,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation PetMedix Ltd, Glenn Berge Building, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Amy Treeful,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• David Sargan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9897-2489

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• Allan Bradley ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AB and SGF contributed equally to this work as joint last authors.

  Affiliations Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Saffron Walden, United Kingdom, PetMedix Ltd, Glenn Berge Building, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Medicine, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Steven G. Friedenberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fried255@umn.edu

  ¶‡ AB and SGF contributed equally to this work as joint last authors.

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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