Combine Cell Clonotypes
The Combine Cell Clonotypes tool can be found in the Toolbox here:
Toolbox | Single Cell Analysis () | Immune Repertoire () | Combine Cell Clonotypes ()
The tool takes as input multiple TCR Cell Clonotypes () or BCR Cell Clonotypes () elements and outputs a single Cell Clonotypes element. This can be useful to reduce the number of elements needed to describe a set of cells.
Note that TCR Cell Clonotypes and BCR Cell Clonotypes cannot be mixed and only one type should be used at a time.
The tool is very flexible and it supports:
- Different clonotypes for the same cells.
- Clonotypes for different cells.
Cells are considered to be the same if they have the same sample and barcode.
If different clonotypes are identified for the same cell, they will all be collected in the output. While a cell can have up to two different clonotypes for the same chain type (see Primary and secondary clonotypes), this tool can lead to barcodes having an arbitrary number of clonotypes. Clonotypes marked as "Subsequent" are biologically unlikely and if the output Cell Clonotypes element contains subsequent clonotypes, it is an indication that the incorrect elements have been combined. Subsequent clonotypes can be removed using the Filter Cell Clonotypes tool, see Filter Cell Clonotypes.