IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system®, was established in 1989 to characterize the genes and alleles involved in the synthesis of immunoglobulins (IG, or antibodies) and T cell receptors (TR) in vertebrates. IMGT® is an integrated resource for the sequences, genes, and structures of IG, TR, and major histocompatibility (MH) proteins involved in adaptive immune responses, as well as other proteins from the immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) and the MH superfamily (MhSF) in vertebrates and invertebrates. IMGT® includes 7 databases, 17 online tools, and over 20,000 web pages of resources.

In this context, the internship is part of IMGT’s ongoing development activities and will involve designing an interactive nucleotide sequence visualization tool to facilitate the exploration, annotation, and understanding of immunogenetic data.

The student’s main task will be to create a JavaScript tool (running in the web browser of the original interface) for visualizing nucleotide sequences (with their translations) and the nucleotide elements they contain, based on a JSON file containing these entities.

The tool should be dynamic, allowing the user to modify the different data of the entities, save these modifications back to the JSON file, and add annotations.

Additional visual or technical components may be requested depending on the student’s skills and interests, with JavaScript as the main programming language and a JSON file as the input-output format.