Standardizing the format of a germline set

[ematsen]

This is great, @w.lees!

@w.lees

AIRR would sponsor or manage a central repository for germlines: the germline.fasta files for each species, and the underlying data showing who contributed them, what their origins were and so on. Each gene would be allocated an index number, and existing entries would never change. Like a genbank for germlines.

To be clear, would a given “germline database” have the option of containing a subset of this master list?

@w.lees

The same (or different) people would publish positions_xxx.csv files for numbering schemes of interest. These would need to be kept in step with the names_xxx.csv files.

The format of these positions_xxx.csv files would be numberings based on the actual underlying sequences themselves, not with respect to an existing numbering such as IMGT, right?