Codeathon Report - NIAID BRC AI Codeathon 2025 NIAID-BRC AI Codeathon for Infectious Disease Research - November 12-14, 2025 at Argonne National Laboratory

The BV-BRC team co-hosted the NIAID BRC program's inaugural AI codeathon last fall. Check out a summary of the meeting and all the great work to come out of the teams developing projects here!

niaid-brc-codeathons.github.io/report/

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Happy New Year BV-BRC Community! Join us for a free bioinformatic workshop to increase your technical skills the first week of March in sunny San Diego!! Registration is now open. We also have one scheduled for the first week in June, outside of Chicago.

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The BV-BRC team is excited to announce our 2026 in person workshops! Register now to join us next year. Spots are limited and fill up fast. Reserve yours now. www.bv-brc.org/docs/news/20...

We’re excited to be at #ASMCUE to present some of our classroom applications. If you’re here, check out our microbrew talk tomorrow morning.

BV-BRC: a unified bacterial and viral bioinformatics resource with expanded functionality and AI integration Abstract. The Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC; https://www.bv-brc.org) is a comprehensive resource supporting research on bacter

The BV-BRC team is excited to share updates in the latest NAR issue. Check it out now to see what's new!

BV-BRC: a unified bacterial and viral bioinformatics resource with expanded functionality and AI integration academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Happy Halloween from the BV-BRC Team! We are here to help with even the spookiest of your analyses! bv-brc.org

Join us for a three-day hands-on AI Codeathon uniting experts to tackle critical challenges in infectious disease research using artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), sponsored by the NIAID BRCs.

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We are excited to be heading to ASV next week! Will we see you there?

Reminder our educators webinar is today! We hope to see you there. www.bv-brc.org/docs/news/20...

The BV-BRC team is excited to share our measles outbreak pages are live! Check out these pages, for updated phylogenetics, data and tools to analyze Morbillivirus hominis data in the BV-BRC. www.bv-brc.org/outbreaks/Me...

The BV-BRC team is getting excited about our upcoming workshop in La Jolla next week! Looking forward to meeting users, sharing tools and talking all about bacteria and viruses with the BV-BRC!

Another @bvbrc.bsky.social workshop coming up May 5-8 in sunny CA! Come join us and learn how to analyze bacterial and viral data with this fantastic tool. www.bv-brc.org/docs/news/20...

March BRC Analytics infographic

Join us on Wednesday, March 26 for a BRC-Analytics/Galaxy webinar where we will update you on what's new in Galaxy and BRC-Analytics, including demonstrations of running transcriptomics workflows on C. auris and surveillance analysis on P. vivax data. The webinar is at 1:00 EDT/19:00 CEST. (1/2)

Registration is now open for our workshop from May 5-8 in La Jolla California! Sign up to join us now! www.bv-brc.org/docs/news/20...

Register your interest in participating in the Global Culicidae Reference Genomes Project We are seeking mosquito biologists around the world who would be interested in collecting and contributing specimens of any vector species that currently lacks a reference genome. Aim: We are aiming ...

if you have an interest in improving the genomic resources available for mosquitoes, please fill in our google form at tinyurl.com/MosquitoReferenceGenomes. please share this with colleagues who might be interested. thank you! [3/3]

Day one of our Joint AMR and Viral Workshop at ANL has been super successful! Looking forward to a great day two!

Did you know that BV-BRC Influenza 2.3.4.4b Sequences have GenoFlu run on them? Check it out here with the subclade filter on. www.bv-brc.org/view/Taxonom...

GenoFLU is a USDA tool for automating genotyping assignment which you can read more about here: github.com/USDA-VS/Geno...

The BV-BRC Team is excited to invite you to our upcoming workshop. Sign up now!

Avian flu reported in 108 countries across five continents, says UN health agency Avian influenza has caused the deaths of more than 300 million birds worldwide and the virus “is increasingly crossing species barriers”, according to UN health officers.

Avian flu reported in 108 countries across five continents, says UN health agency

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Map updated to include Arizona human case.

The workshop will show researchers how to analyze and explore bacterial and viral pathogen data using the BV-BRC website, focusing on bacterial, and viral examples and workflows. Register now!
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The BV-BRC (Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center) team will be offering a Bioinformatics Workshop on February 24-28, 2025, at Argonne National Laboratory in the suburbs of Chicago, IL.

Updated H5N1 map includes human and swine cases in Oregon.

Clade I MPXV detected in US

First presumptive positive case of H5 avian influenza detected in B.C. An individual in British Columbia has tested presumptive positive for avian influenza (also known as bird flu) caused by the H5 influenza virus, the first detection of avian influenza due to the H5 vi...

H5N1 detected in a human in Canada

Federal and State Veterinary Agencies Share Update on HPAI Detections in Oregon Backyard Farm, Including First H5N1 Detections in Swine
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