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Scalable Clustering For Immune Repertoire Sequence Analysis, Prem Bhusal

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The development of the next-generation sequencing technology has enabled systems immunology researchers to conduct detailed immune repertoire analysis at the molecule level. Large sequence datasets (e.g., millions of sequences) are being collected to comprehensively understand how the immune system of a patient evolves over different stages of disease development. A recent study has shown that the hierarchical clustering (HC) algorithm gives the best results for B-cell clones analysis - an important type of immune repertoire sequencing (IR-Seq) analysis. However, due to the inherent complexity, the classical hierarchical clustering algorithm does not scale well to large sequence datasets. Surprisingly, no algorithms …