Viruses (May 2022)

The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2022

  • Franziska Hufsky,
  • Denis Beslic,
  • Dimitri Boeckaerts,
  • Sebastian Duchene,
  • Enrique González-Tortuero,
  • Andreas J. Gruber,
  • Jiarong Guo,
  • Daan Jansen,
  • John Juma,
  • Kunaphas Kongkitimanon,
  • Antoni Luque,
  • Muriel Ritsch,
  • Gabriel Lencioni Lovate,
  • Luca Nishimura,
  • Célia Pas,
  • Esteban Domingo,
  • Emma Hodcroft,
  • Philippe Lemey,
  • Matthew B. Sullivan,
  • Friedemann Weber,
  • Fernando González-Candelas,
  • Sarah Krautwurst,
  • Alba Pérez-Cataluña,
  • Walter Randazzo,
  • Gloria Sánchez,
  • Manja Marz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/v14050973
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 5
p. 973

Abstract

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The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2022 took place online, on 23–25 March 2022, and has attracted about 380 participants from all over the world. The goal of the meeting was to provide a meaningful and interactive scientific environment to promote discussion and collaboration and to inspire and suggest new research directions and questions. The participants created a highly interactive scientific environment even without physical face-to-face interactions. This meeting is a focal point to gain an insight into the state-of-the-art of the virus bioinformatics research landscape and to interact with researchers in the forefront as well as aspiring young scientists. The meeting featured eight invited and 18 contributed talks in eight sessions on three days, as well as 52 posters, which were presented during three virtual poster sessions. The main topics were: SARS-CoV-2, viral emergence and surveillance, virus–host interactions, viral sequence analysis, virus identification and annotation, phages, and viral diversity. This report summarizes the main research findings and highlights presented at the meeting.

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