VidjilNet Consortium
Gathering onco-hematological laboratories, research centers, and industrial and institutional partners, the nonprofit VidjilNet consortium is dedicated to:
- sustain and support open-source development of the Vidjil web platform, the underlying Vidjil-algo component, and possibly other software to study immune repertoires, by adapting them to the needs of members;
- provide bioinformatics support and services to the members for these softwares, whether for clinical purpose or for hematological or immunological research. As of 2025, the consortium provides consulting, training sessions, and support to host, maintain, and certify Vidjil analyses.
Being a member of VidjilNet is an opportunity to participate in a community of professionals in hematology, immunology, oncology, and bioinformatics and to promote open research. Members have the chance to contribute to shaping and enhancing the Vidjil platform, fostering a collaborative effort that aligns with their specific requirements. VidjilNet emphasizes the importance of continuous learning and skill development, empowering their teams with the knowledge needed to optimize their research or clinical endeavors.
The consortium works into a quality approach concerning both software development and testing, the relationship with its members, and ethics on health data processing. Vidjil was awarded an honorable mention at the 2022 Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software, in the Community category.
VidjilNet is incubated in Inria since 2018, and membership is offered since the end of 2019.
Why join the consortium?
- show your interest in the Vidjil platform, deciding collectively on its major developments and participating in the membership community, both on the user side and on the developer side;
- benefit from member-only services: installation, training and support by a bioinformatician engineer, development of functionalities, remote maintenance of a server or hosting on a shared server, transfer of data and backup configuration. Hospital laboratories as well as research groups who wish to support the project are welcome to join, even if they do not perform analyzes in a clinical setting. Inria can also receive donations for the VidjilNet consortium.
2025 Memberships
Minimal Membership 3 517 € / year
- < 100 clinical samples per year
- 1 user
Standard Membership (Laboratory) 11 721 € / year
- < 500 clinical samples per year
- one group of users from a same laboratory
Shared, Industrial, or Support Membership 29 303 € / year
- < 2000 clinical samples per year
- several users, several groups, several laboratories
Support for 150 other clinical samples 3 517 €
Support for 1500 other clinical samples 23 442 €
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2025 Meetings
2025 General Assembly - 6 March, 10:00-12:00 CET
Bioinformatians community We are launching the creation of a community of bioinformaticians working in onco-hematology, with or without Vidjil.
The goal is to identify key resource people to connect with each other, allowing us to progress faster and stronger on our various topics.
The exact form of this community has yet to be defined. If you are in this field or know people who might be interested in joining us, please feel free to reach out.
The launch meeting will take place on Friday, April 25th, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CET at this Zoom link.
Feature tour // Open meetings on Thursdays. Every two months, discover Vidjil features during a 15’ talk. Join us at 14:00 CET (French) or 14:30 CET (English) ▶️ Zoom link
- 27 March: Reports and some new associated features [video]
- 24 April: Postponed to 22 May
- May 22: Case studies (Capture, UMI, MRD…) and discussion on improvements
- June 26: Inspecting clonotypes (I): axes, presets, clusters
- September 25: Inspecting clonotypes (II): sequence alignment and analysis, primers, external analyses
Bilateral meetings can also be arranged.
2024 Meetings
2024 workshop took place in Rennes on 22-23 May 2024.
Some of the slides and video captures are now available on the workshop page.
Next session will be held in 18 months.
Committees
The VidjilNet consortium is run by an Executive Committee and a Scientific and Technical Committee. Each committee gather 3 elected members, 3 representatives of the developers, and 1 representative of Inria.
Executive Committee
Members
- Pr Frédéric Davi (head) (La Pitié, APHP Paris)
- Pr Éric Delabesse (CHU Toulouse)
- Pr Claude Preudhomme (CHU Lille)
Developers
Inria
Scientific and Technical Committee
Users
- Dr Nathalie Grardel (CHU Lille)
- Dr Cédric Pastoret (CHU Rennes)
- Dr Yannick Le Bris (CHU Nantes)
Developers
- Clément Chesnin, Mathieu Giraud (head), Mikaël Salson
Inria
References, publications
If you use Vidjil, please cite [Borée 2025] which is the most up-to-date reference on the algorithmic methods. The Vidjil methods and platform were first described in [Giraud, Salson 2014] (algorithm) and [Duez 2016] (web platform). References for protocols are [Villarese 2022] (marker identification in ALL) and [Septenville 2022] (assessment of mutational status in CLL).
- Cyprien Borée et al., Alignment-free detection and seed-based identification of multi-loci V(D)J recombinations in Vidjil-algo, 2025, https://hal.science/hal-04361907
- Mathieu Giraud, Mikaël Salson, et al., Fast multiclonal clusterization of V(D)J recombinations from high-throughput sequencing, BMC Genomics 2014, 15:409, https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-409
- Marc Duez et al., Vidjil: A web platform for analysis of high-throughput repertoire sequencing, PLOS ONE 2016, 11(11):e0166126, https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166126
- Patrick Villarese et al., One-Step Next-Generation Sequencing of Immunoglobulin and T-Cell Receptor Gene Recombinations for MRD Marker Identification in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Immunogenetics, Methods in Molecular Biology 2453, pp. 43-59, 2022, https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2115-8_3
- Anne Langlois de Septenville et al., Immunoglobulin Gene Mutational Status Assessment by Next Generation Sequencing in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Immunogenetics, Methods in Molecular Biology 2453, pp. 153-167, 2022, https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2115-8_10
More than 55 studies in hematology, immunology, and/or computational biology were published using the Vidjil platform, including 20+ articles involving VidjilNet developers and researchers.