Organization:Nextstrain
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Nextstrain is a collaboration between researchers in Seattle, United States[1] and Basel, Switzerland[2] which provides a collection of open-source tools for visualising the genetics behind the spread of viral outbreaks.[3]
Its aim is to support public health measures and surveillance by facilitating understanding of the spread and evolution of pathogens. The Nextstrain platform was begun in 2015.[2] Code developed by Nextstrain is made publicly available, via, for example github.com and its data is available and viewable in accessible form via the pages at the website.[4]
Applications
According to their website, the Nextstrain team maintains an up-to-date genomic analysis of each of the following pathogens:[5]
- Avian influenza
- Dengue
- Enterovirus D68
- Measles
- Monkeypox virus
- Mumps
- SARS-CoV-2
- Seasonal influenza
- Tuberculosis
- West Nile virus
- West African Ebola 2013-16
- Zika
Covid-19 pandemic
Nextstrain and its results have been widely quoted during the COVID-19 pandemic.[6][7][unreliable source?][8][9]
Award
In May 2020, Nextstrain and Trevor Bedford (Associate professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)[10] received a Webby Special Achievement Award for the web tool.[11]
See also
- INSDC
- GISAID
- PANGOLIN
- List of COVID-19 simulation models
References
- ↑ Richards, Sarah Elizabeth (26 March 2020). "How coronavirus mutations can track its spread—and disprove conspiracies". https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-coronavirus-mutations-can-track-its-spread-and-disprove-conspiracies.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Spread of a novel SARS-CoV-2 variant across Europe in summer 2020". 29 October 2020. https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/Spread-of-a-novel-SARS-CoV-2-variant-across-Europe-in-summer-2020.html.
- ↑ Reza, Nosheen (6 April 2020). "nextstrain RNA, DNA, and COVID-19"]. https://earlycareervoice.professional.heart.org/tag/nextstrain/.
- ↑ Hadfield, James; Megill, Colin; Bell, Sidney; Huddleston, John; Potter, Barney; Callender, Charlton et al. (2018-05-22). Kelso, Janet. ed. "Nextstrain: real-time tracking of pathogen evolution". Bioinformatics 34 (23): 4121–4123. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bty407. ISSN 1367-4803. PMID 29790939. PMC 6247931. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/224048v1.
- ↑ "Nextstrain Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution Section 'Explore pathogens". https://nextstrain.org/.
- ↑ Drake, John (19 Dec 2020). "The Science Behind London's Christmas Coronavirus Lockdown". https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/2020/12/19/the-science-behind-londons-christmas-lockdown/.
- ↑ Template:Cite medRxiv
- ↑ "Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force" (in en). https://sciencetaskforce.ch/en/nextstrain-phylogenetic-analysis/.
- ↑ "Nextstrain, Sequencing & the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic" (in en). 2020. https://www.medartbasel.ch/fileadmin/files/2020/medArt_2020/PDF/Hodcroft-Neher_Nextstrain.pdf.
- ↑ "40 Under 40 Healthcare". https://fortune.com/40-under-40/2020/trevor-bedford/.
- ↑ "Webby Special Achievement". https://winners.webbyawards.com/2020/specialachievement/270/nextstrainorg.
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