The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2022

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

Abstract

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.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Conference Name: The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2022
• Acceptance Date: Apr 28, 2022
• Online Publication Date: May 5, 2022
• Publication Date: May 5, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jul 26, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 26, 2022
• Journal: Viruses
• Electronic ISSN: 1999-4915
• Publisher: MDPI
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 973
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/v14050973
• Keywords: Phages, Bioinformatics, Viral Sequence analysis, Tools, Viral Diversity, Virus–host Interactions, Sars-cov-2, Viral Emergence And Surveillance, Virus Identification And Annotations, Humans, Viruses, DNA Viruses, Viruses, Unclassified, Computational Biology, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/v14050973
• Related Public URLs: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC9144528; https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC9144528?pdf=render
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference; Funders : NIH HHS;Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council;Swiss National Science Foundation;Wellcome Trust;Marie Curie;European Research Council; Projects : R01AI153044;BB/T016256;BB/T015616;196046;206298/Z/17/Z;955974;725422-ReservoirDOCS;725422