Will you help?

Our lab has been tasked with an important problem - there is a new pathogen spreading around the world and causing problems.

Across the globe a pandemic is unfolding.

You take on the role of a new employee in a pharmaceutical company researching the deadly outbreak caused by an unknown pathogen. Use your puzzle skills to master computational tools in a bioinformatics program called VIRIDAE (Viral Identification and Analysis Engine). Analyze the genome of the pathogen with your pipeline to determine its origin and identify the genetic variation that made it so deadly. Each tool you master will help you ‘filter’ genomic information to find answers in the data.

The development of FILTERED was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under SEPA Award Number R25GM129867. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.