Bioinformatics Meets Virology: The European Virus Bioinformatics Center's Second Annual Meeting

Bashar Ibrahim; Ksenia Arkhipova; Arno C Andeweg; Susana Posada-Céspedes; François Enault; Arthur Gruber; Eugene V Koonin; Anne Kupczok; Philippe Lemey; Alice C McHardy; Dino P McMahon; Brett E Pickett; David L Robertson; Richard H Scheuermann; Alexandra Zhernakova; Mark P Zwart; Alexander Schönhuth; Bas E Dutilh; Manja Marz

doi:10.3390/v10050256

Bioinformatics Meets Virology: The European Virus Bioinformatics Center's Second Annual Meeting

Viruses. 2018 May 14;10(5):256. doi: 10.3390/v10050256.

Authors

Bashar Ibrahim^{1

2}, Ksenia Arkhipova³, Arno C Andeweg^{4

5}, Susana Posada-Céspedes^{6

7}, François Enault⁸, Arthur Gruber⁹, Eugene V Koonin¹⁰, Anne Kupczok^{11

12}, Philippe Lemey^{13

14}, Alice C McHardy^{15

16}, Dino P McMahon^{17

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19}, Brett E Pickett^{20

21}, David L Robertson^{22

23}, Richard H Scheuermann^{24

25}, Alexandra Zhernakova²⁶, Mark P Zwart²⁷, Alexander Schönhuth^{28

29

30}, Bas E Dutilh^{31

32}, Manja Marz^{33

34

35}

Affiliations

¹ European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
² Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
³ Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands. [email protected].
⁴ European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
⁵ Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands. [email protected].
⁶ Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, 4058 Basel, Switzerland. [email protected].
⁷ SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 4058 Basel, Switzerland. [email protected].
⁸ Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, LMGE, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France. [email protected].
⁹ Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, 05508-000 São Paulo, Brazil. [email protected].
¹⁰ National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. [email protected].
¹¹ European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
¹² Institute of General Microbiology, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany. [email protected].
¹³ European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
¹⁴ Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, University of Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. [email protected].
¹⁵ European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
¹⁶ Department for Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany. [email protected].
¹⁷ European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
¹⁸ Institute of Biology, Free University Berlin, Schwendenerstr. 1, 14195 Berlin, Germany. [email protected].
¹⁹ Department for Materials and Environment, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Unter den Eichen 87, 12205 Berlin, Germany. [email protected].
²⁰ European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
²¹ J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. [email protected].
²² European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
²³ MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Garscube Campus, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK. [email protected].
²⁴ European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
²⁵ J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. [email protected].
²⁶ Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands. [email protected].
²⁷ Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands. [email protected].
²⁸ European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
²⁹ Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands. [email protected].
³⁰ Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [email protected].
³¹ European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
³² Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands. [email protected].
³³ European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
³⁴ Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany. [email protected].
³⁵ Leibniz Institute for Age Research-Fritz Lipmann Institute, 07745 Jena, Germany. [email protected].

Abstract

The Second Annual Meeting of the European Virus Bioinformatics Center (EVBC), held in Utrecht, Netherlands, focused on computational approaches in virology, with topics including (but not limited to) virus discovery, diagnostics, (meta-)genomics, modeling, epidemiology, molecular structure, evolution, and viral ecology. The goals of the Second Annual Meeting were threefold: (i) to bring together virologists and bioinformaticians from across the academic, industrial, professional, and training sectors to share best practice; (ii) to provide a meaningful and interactive scientific environment to promote discussion and collaboration between students, postdoctoral fellows, and both new and established investigators; (iii) to inspire and suggest new research directions and questions. Approximately 120 researchers from around the world attended the Second Annual Meeting of the EVBC this year, including 15 renowned international speakers. This report presents an overview of new developments and novel research findings that emerged during the meeting.

Keywords: bioinformatics; software; virology; viruses.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Computational Biology*
Congresses as Topic
DNA Viruses
Ecology
Genomics
Humans
Societies, Scientific
Software
Virology*

Grants and funding

MC_UU_12014/12/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom