Webinars

BV-BRC periodically offers live instructional webinars where users can participate and ask questions along the way. The webinars are recorded and made available for viewing afterward from the BV-BRC YouTube Channel.

Back to Basics Virus Series

October 11 through December 6th, 2023 The BV-BRC offered a Bioinformatics Webinar Series on October 11, 25, November 8, 29th, and December 6th. The webinars showed researchers how to analyze and explore viral pathogen data using the BV-BRC website. The first webinar focused on an overview of the BV-BRC and showed tips and tricks for searching for data, creating a workspace, and sharing private data with collaborators. The second focused on the annotation tools within the BV-BRC—the third focused on the phylogenetic tree tools and ways to visualize metadata on those trees. The fourth showcased our sequence submission tool and other influenza tools. Finally, we finished up with our protein tools. All recordings will be posted on YouTube.

Finding and Analyzing RSV and Influenza Data in the BV-BRC

November 29 and December 13, 2022 The BV-BRC team offered two Bioinformatics webinars covering the data types available for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and Influenza Virus that can be found in the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Research Center (BV-BRC) database. Several tools and services that can be used for RSV bioinformatic analysis were demonstrated. (Click here to see the original webinar announcement and schedule).

Monkeypox and Orthopoxvirus Mini Symposium

September 15, 2022. BV-BRC organized the Monkeypox and Orthopoxvirus Mini Symposium in response to the global 2022 monkeypox virus outbreak. The presentations begins with a brief primer on monkeypox virus. Addtional topics include bioinformatic resources and tools currently available and in development for the purpose of studying monkeypox virus, as well as updates on the analysis of emerging MPXV genomes. (Click here to see the original webinar announcement and schedule).

Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens

March 8 - June 14, 2022. This webinar series, created in collaboration with our sister BRC, VEuPathDB, is geared towards researchers working on ticks and the bacterial, viral or eukaryotic pathogens they transmit. The webinars focus on highlighting data and bioinformatic tools provided by BV-BRC and VEuPathDB. (Click here to see the original webinar announcement and schedule).

Introduction to BV-BRC

February 25 - April 1, 2022. This webinar series provides overviews of each major aspect of the BV-BRC resource. The webinars were recorded and are available from the links below. (Click here to see the original webinar announcement and schedule).