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Getting Started
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This document provides information and resources regarding
the AIRR Community Standards for the diverse community of immunology
researchers, computational biologists, and software developers.

AIRR data standards
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+ Gather experimental and analysis information about your study to conform to the :ref:`MiAIRR <MiAIRR>` standard
  (minimal information about adaptive immune receptor repertoires).

+ Schema, definitions and file formats for the :ref:`AIRR Data Standards <DataRepresentations>`. The AIRR Data Model
  defines the structure and relationship for AIRR data elements.

AIRR data query and submission
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+ :ref:`Query <Data_Submission>` publicly available AIRR-seq studies in the :ref:`AIRR Data Commons <DataCommons>`.
+ :ref:`Submission <Data_Submission>` of your study data to a public repository.

Software tools and libraries
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+ :ref:`Python reference library <PythonOverview>` for reading/writing/validating AIRR data files.
+ :ref:`R reference library <ROverview>` for reading/writing/validating AIRR data files.
+ :ref:`ADC API reference implementation <DataCommonsAPIReference>` for a local data repository.
+ :ref:`AIRR Data Commons API <DataCommonsAPI>` provides programmatic access to query and download AIRR-seq data.
+ :ref:`Resources and tools <Community>` that support the AIRR Standards.