Delineating Inter- And Intra-Antibody Repertoire Evolution

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Documentation for package ‘AntibodyForests’ version 1.0.0

• DESCRIPTION file.
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Af_add_node_feature	Function to add node features to an AntibodyForests-object
Af_build	Function to infer B cell evolutionary networks for all clonotypes in VDJ dataframe as obtained from the 'VDJ_build()' function.
Af_cluster_metrics	Function to make a grouped boxplot of metrics from clusters of clonotypes
Af_cluster_node_features	Function to create a barplot of the cluster composition of selected features from each tree in an AntibodyForests-object
Af_compare_across_repertoires	A function to compare dynamics of B cell evolution across different repertoires.
Af_compare_methods	Function to compare trees created with different algorithms from the same clonotype.
Af_compare_within_repertoires	Function to compare tree topology of B cell lineages
af_default	Small AntibodyForests object with default algorithm for function testing purposes
Af_distance_boxplot	Function to make a grouped boxplot of distance between nodes from specific groups and the germline of lineage trees constructed with AntibodyForests.
Af_distance_scatterplot	Function to scatterplot the distance to the germline to a numerical node feature of the AntibodyForests-object
Af_edge_RMSD	Function to calculate the RMSD between sequences over each edge in the AntibodyForest object
Af_get_sequences	Function to get the sequences from the nodes in an AntibodyForest object
Af_metrics	Function to calculate metrics for each tree in an AntibodyForests-object
af_mst	Small AntibodyForests object with MST algorithm for function testing purposes
af_nj	Small AntibodyForests object with NJ algorithm for function testing purposes
Af_PLM_dataframe	Function to create a dataframe of the Protein Language Model probabilities and ranks of the mutations along the edges of B cell lineage trees.
Af_plot_PLM	Function to create a distribution plot of the Protein Language Model probabilities and ranks of the mutations along the edges of B cell lineage trees.
Af_plot_tree	Plots lineage tree of clonotype from AntibodyForests object
Af_sync_nodes	Function to synchronize the node labels/names of all clonotypes within all samples of two AntibodyForests objects.
Af_to_newick	Saves an AntibodyForests-object into a newick file
calculate_GBLD	Calculate the GBLD distance between trees in an AntibodyForests object. Code is derived from https://github.com/tahiri-lab/ClonalTreeClustering/blob/main/src/Python/GBLD_Metric_Final.ipynb Farnia, M., Tahiri, N. New generalized metric based on branch length distance to compare B cell lineage trees. Algorithms Mol Biol 19, 22 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13015-024-00267-1
compare_repertoire	Example output from Af_compare_within_repertoires() for function testing purposes
igraph_to_phylo	Converts an igraph network into a phylogenetic tree as a phylo object.
PLM_dataframe	Small PLM dataframe for function testing purposes
small_af	Small AntibodyForests object for function testing purposes
small_vdj	Small VDJ dataframe for function testing purposes
VDJ_3d_properties	Function to calculate 3D-structure propoperties such as the average charge and hydrophobicity, pKa shift, free energy, RMSD of PDB files and add them to an AntibodyForests-object
VDJ_import_IgBLAST_annotations	Function to import the annotations and alignments from IgBLAST output into the VDJ dataframe.
VDJ_integrate_bulk	A function to integrate bulk and single cell data
VDJ_to_AIRR	Function to convert VDJ dataframe into an AIRR-formatted TSV file.