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+=============================
+AIRR Community Data Standards
+=============================
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+One of the core initiatives of the Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire
+(AIRR) Community [Breden_2017]_ has been to develop standards regarding
+the content and format of metadata associated with AIRR sequencing
+datasets. The primary aim of this effort is to make published AIRR
+datasets `FAIR`_ (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable). This
+work has been a joint effort between the AIRR Community's `Minimal
+Standards`_ and `Database Representation`_ Working Groups. 
+
+.. _`FAIR`: https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples
+.. _`Minimal Standards`: http://airr.irmacs.sfu.ca/working_groups/minimal_standards
+.. _`Database Representation`: http://airr.irmacs.sfu.ca/node/36
+
+
+The MiAIRR Data Standard
+========================
+
+In order to support FAIR-ness, reproducibility, quality control, and
+data deposition in a common repository, the AIRR Community has agreed to
+six high-level data sets that will guide the publication, curation and
+sharing of AIRR-Seq data and metadata:
+
+-  study and subject
+
+-  sample collection
+
+-  sample processing and sequencing
+
+-  raw sequence reads
+
+-  processing of sequence data
+
+-  processed AIRR sequences
+
+These data sets and their associated individual items are referred to as
+**MiAIRR**, the Minimum information about an Adaptive Immune Receptor
+Repertoire sequencing experiment. The MiAIRR data standard has recently
+been published together with a first implementation using the NCBI
+repository structure [Rubelt_2017]_. For further information, including
+a submission guide and a detailed specification, see `here`__
+
+.. __: http://docs.airr-community.org/en/latest/miairr/overview.html
+
+
+Implementations
+===============
+
+-  `NCBI-based`_
+-  AIRR Common Repository - _in development_
+
+.. _`NCBI-based`: http://docs.airr-community.org/en/latest/miairr/overview.html
+
+
+
+Contributions
+=============
+
+The AIRR Community is an open initiative and we welcome all
+contributions. Please review our `development process`_ before
+contributing changes.
+
+.. _`development process`: https://github.com/airr-community/airr-standards/tree/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+
+
+Build Status 
+============
+
+.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/airr-community/airr-standards.svg?branch=master
+   :target: https://travis-ci.org/airr-community/airr-standards
+
+Please report problems, bugs, comments or enhancement requests using
+the `issue tracker`_.
+
+.. _`issue tracker`: https://github.com/airr-community/airr-standards/issues
+.. https://waffle.io/airr-community/airr-standards
+
+
+References
+==========
+
+.. [Rubelt_2017] Rubelt F *et al*. AIRR Community Recommendations for
+   Sharing Immune Repertoire Sequencing Data. Nat Immunol 18:1274
+   (2017) `DOI: 10.1038/ni.3873`_
+.. _`DOI: 10.1038/ni.3873`: https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.3873
+
+.. [Breden_2017] Breden F *et al*. Reproducibility and Reuse of
+   Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Data. Front Immunol 8:1418
+   (2017) `DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01418`_
+.. _`DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01418`: https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2017.01418
+
+.. [Zenodo_1185414] Release archive of the AIRR Standards repository.
+   (2015-2018) `DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1185414`_
+.. _`DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1185414`: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1185414
+
+
+License
+=======
+
+.. image:: https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/80x15.png
+   :target: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
+
+(c) 2015 - 2018 by Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari, Jean-Philippe Bürckert,
+Christian E. Busse, Scott Christley, Brian Corrie, Lindsay G. Cowell,
+Uri Hershberg, Steven H. Kleinstein, Frederick A. Matsen IV,
+Uri Laserson, Marie-Paule Lefranc, Eline T. Luning Prak, Florian Rubelt,
+Jason Vander Heiden, Corey T. Watson
+
+This work is licensed under a `Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
+International License`_.
+
+.. _`Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License`: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/