GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information (Dec 2020)
Keine Zeit für „Irrungen und Wirrungen“: Aufbau des ZB MED COVID-19 Hubs für die Forschungsunterstützung rund um das Corona-Virus SARS-CoV-2
Abstract
Right at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of researchers and colleagues from the library sector set themselves the task of supporting research on the SARS-Cov-2 virus. In March 2020, ZB MED established the COVID-19 Hub: Since then, the platform offers a collection of various resources of free literature, current sources and text mining corpora. The ZB MED COVID-19 Hub also contains interactive bioinformatics tools for molecular biology researchers such as Genome Browser, Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer and phylogenetic trees of the complete SARS-CoV-2 genomes. ZB MED has also set up an automated search for SARS-CoV-2 on the search portal LIVIVO. Within NFDI4Health, ZB MED has set up the COVID-19 Task Force with various partners. As a first result within the initiative, the ZB MED team has developed the COVID-19 Preprint Viewer.In September 2020, the ZB MED team won the special prize in the competition of the German MLA (AGMB) “Pioneer projects in medical libraries” for the ZB MED COVID-19 Hub. In the laudation it is stated: “The COVID-19 Hub has been developed at an extraordinary speed and currently represents an indispensable and freely accessible information resource for virologists, epidemiologists and other researchers”.
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