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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

Noriko Cassman

Noriko Cassman

Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

How viruses infect every branch of life and were maybe even central to its origin
Vincent Navratil

Vincent Navratil

Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, France

The way they control and shape everything living on the Earth and beyond
Matthew B. Sullivan

Matthew B. Sullivan

Ohio State University, US

The constant mysteries
Ingrida Olendraite

Ingrida Olendraite

University of Cambridge, UK

[...] how every time there is something unexpected hiding in their small RNA genomes. [...]
Neta Zuckerman

Neta Zuckerman

Ministry of Health National Virology Laboratory, Israel

[...] how a thing so small and invisible can cause so much trouble.
Philippe Le Mercier

Philippe Le Mercier

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland

They don’t respect the rules
David L Robertson

David L Robertson

MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, UK

That despite their relatively simple genomes viruses contain the information to usurp host cells for their own replication and on top of this counteract host responses. [...]
Isabella Eckerle

Isabella Eckerle

Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève, Switzerland

They are simple in terms of their composition and, at the same time, so complicated! [...]
Sebastian Lequime

Sebastian Lequime

University of Groningen, Netherlands

How efficient they are given the relatively small size of their genomes (especially RNA viruses) and the very strong evolutionary pressures.
Kevin Lamkiewicz

Kevin Lamkiewicz

FSU Jena, Germany

[...] You can work with viral sequences on nearly every laptop and make cool science nearly everywhere without having to worry much about RAM or hard drive storage. [...]
Paul Rivarez

Paul Rivarez

National Institute of Biology, Slovenia

Their unexpectedly vast diversity, surprising ecological and biogeochemical functions, fascinating evolution and co-evolution with their hosts.
Simon Roux

Simon Roux

DOE Joint Genome Institute, US

I love the diversity of the viral world, and the many solutions that evolved in the virosphere in response to all the challenges and hurdles viruses are facing to replicate.
Arli Aditya Parikesit

Arli Aditya Parikesit

Indonesia International Institute for Life Sciences, Indonesia

Viruses are enigmatic. Scientists made many predictive models on them, and almost all of them proven to be incorrect after a while.
Robert Paxton

Robert Paxton

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Their evolutionary dynamism
Jelle Matthijnssens

Jelle Matthijnssens

KU Leuven, Belgium

They keep surprising us over and over again, [...]. The amount of things to be learned here is endless.
Spyros Lytras

Spyros Lytras

MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, UK

For me, viruses are the perfect model system for studying evolution! [...] They really give us a sped up view of how all life has come to be.
Dimitri Boeckaerts

Dimitri Boeckaerts

Ghent University, Belgium

I love the fact that viruses can be so simple, and yet are capable of very complex interactions.
Florian Erhard

Florian Erhard

University of Würzburg, Germany

Viruses are experts in molecular cell biology and they can teach us about it.
Jens H. Kuhn

Jens H. Kuhn

Tunnell Government Services, US

Everything
Luca Nishimura

Luca Nishimura

SOKENDAI, Japan

Their great diversity and evolutional histories
Emilio Mastriani

Emilio Mastriani

Harbin Medical University, China

Their ability to adapt and organize for surviving.
Elliot Lefkowitz

Elliot Lefkowitz

University of Alabama at Birmingham, US

How they manage to do such magnificent things from such a small package
Diego Simón

Diego Simón

Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Viruses are relatively simple yet full of emergent properties (many worrisome but all fascinating).
Emma Hodcroft

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

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

Daniel Todt

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

The fact that the living world as we know probably would not exist without viral gene transfer. They are the driver of evolution.
Daniel Depledge

Daniel Depledge

Hannover Medical School, Germany

Their diversity in form and function and their (outsized) role in shaping our societies.
Santiago F. Elena

Santiago F. Elena

University of Valencia, Spain

Their evolvability
Michelle Vincendeau

Michelle Vincendeau

Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

Their complexity, variability and adaptability.
Daniel Blanco-Melo

Daniel Blanco-Melo

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, US

How these minimalist entities can take over a complex system, either an individual organism or the complete society in which we live.
Denis Kutnjak

Denis Kutnjak

National Institute of Biology, Slovenia

Adaptability, dynamics and possibility to observe their evolution in real-time.
Alexandros Stamatakis

Alexandros Stamatakis

Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany

That you can observe evolution in real time.
Brett Pickett

Brett Pickett

Brigham Young University, US

Their ability to cause so much damage to a cell with relatively little genetic material

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