News & Announcements
2021
BV-BRC Beta Release
The Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatic Resource Center (BV-BRC) has released its new Beta website for researchers to use.
2020:
A Bioinformatic Approach To Predict Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2
Candidate targets for immune responses to 2019-Novel Coronavirus (nCoV)
Sequence homology and bioinformatic-based predictions
RESCHEDULED: PATRIC/RAST Bacterial and IRD/ViPR Viral Workshops at Argonne National Laboratory.
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, the bacterial and viral workshop originally planned for March 23-27, 2020, will be RESCHEDULED
Bacterial-Viral Bioinformatics Workshop
March 23-27, 2020 - Chicago, IL. RESCHEDULED
25th International Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME2020)
July 19-24, 2020 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Deadline by March 23, 2020.
CDC's 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Summary report
A genomic report of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
Doherty Institute scientists first to grow and share Wuhan coronavirus Wuhan coronavirus.
WHO Situation Report
As of January 26, 2020 there have been 2,014 confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV in 11 countries, with 56 deaths
A preliminary comparative genomics (revised) of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
2019:
PATRIC Data and Website Releases, September – December 2019
This PATRIC release includes a new Genome Assembly Service, new Heatmap Viewer, new analysis Job Scheduler, and over 31,000 new microbial genomes.
Naito et al. report a Tyr82 mutation in PB1 polymerase
induces an Influenza virus mutator phenotype, a desirable feature in developing safe live-attenuated vaccines
New Bioinformatics Hub at UChicago Enables Next-Gen Infectious Disease Research
The new Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC) combines two independent efforts at UChicago and the J. Craig Venter Institute.