Virus Bioinformatics research excellence and innovation with deep impact for a better, healthy world.

Viruses are the cause of a considerable burden to human and animal health. In the last years we have witnessed both the emergence of new viral diseases and the re-emergence of known diseases in new geographical areas. The power of new genome sequencing technologies, associated with new tools to handle “big data”, provide unprecedented opportunities to address fundamental questions in virology. Virologists have an urgent need of virus-specific bioinformatical tools.
Bringing together the excellence of virology and bioinformatics in Europe.
- Solidify the exchange of ideas and initiate scientific cooperations between bioinformaticians and virologists
- Develop specific bioinformatical tools to be applied in virology
- Facilitate interactions between between industry and academia
- Implement third-party funded collaborative joint-funded projects on bioinformatics and virology that achieve more than the sum of their parts
- Increase the international visibility of virus bioinformatics
- Promote young scientists and advance teaching of virus bioinformatics.
- Organise training courses in virus bioinformatics.
What our members love about viruses

Dimitri Boeckaerts
Ghent University, Belgium

Florian Erhard
University of Würzburg, Germany

Jens H. Kuhn
Tunnell Government Services, US

Luca Nishimura
SOKENDAI, Japan

Emilio Mastriani
Harbin Medical University, China

Elliot Lefkowitz
University of Alabama at Birmingham, US

Diego Simón
Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Emma Hodcroft
University of Bern, Switzerland
The fact that you can open up their genomes in a alignment viewer! But also – their fast evolutionary rate, which keeps things interesting and makes a lot of my work possible!

Janina Rahlff
Linneaus University, Sweden
Viruses are like little aliens and despite they are not even alive by human definition they are incredibly successful, diverse, and abundant. We know so little about them.

Daniel Todt
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Daniel Depledge
Hannover Medical School, Germany

Santiago F. Elena
University of Valencia, Spain
Their evolvability

Michelle Vincendeau
Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

Daniel Blanco-Melo
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, US

Denis Kutnjak
National Institute of Biology, Slovenia
Adaptability, dynamics and possibility to observe their evolution in real-time.

Alexandros Stamatakis
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany
