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  <dc:title>Toolkit for HLA Immunogenomics</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package HLAtools version 1.6.3</dc:title>
  <dc:description>A toolkit for the analysis and management of data for genes in the so-called "Human Leukocyte Antigen" (HLA) region. Functions extract reference data from the Anthony Nolan HLA Informatics Group/ImmunoGeneTics HLA 'GitHub' repository (ANHIG/IMGTHLA) &lt;https://github.com/ANHIG/IMGTHLA&gt;, validate Genotype List (GL) Strings, convert between UNIFORMAT and GL String Code (GLSC) formats, translate HLA alleles and GLSCs across ImmunoPolymorphism Database (IPD) IMGT/HLA Database release versions, identify differences between pairs of alleles at a locus, generate customized, multi-position sequence alignments, trim and convert allele-names across nomenclature epochs, and extend existing data-analysis methods.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.6.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: DescTools, dplyr, fmsb, rvest, stats, stringr, tibble, utils,
xfun</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Steven Mack &lt;Steven.Mack@ucsf.edu&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Livia Tran [aut],
  Ryan Nickens [aut],
  Leamon Crooms IV [aut],
  Derek Pappas [aut],
  Vinh Luu [ctb],
  Josh Bredeweg [ctb],
  Steven Mack [aut, cre] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9820-9547&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2025-07-21</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=HLAtools</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.HLAtools</dc:identifier>
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