Appendix A: Key Terms

The following table provides definitions for terms and acronyms relevant to this documentation.

Term

Definition

ADC

AIRR Data Commons

AIRR

Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire

AIRR-C

AIRR Community

API

Application Programming Interface

CAIRR

CEDAR AIRR

CEDAR

Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

JSON

JavaScript Object Notation

MiAIRR

Minimal Information about an Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire study

REST

Representational State Transfer

TSV

Tab Separated Values

URL

Universal Resource Locator

YAML

YAML Ain’t Markup Language