Interested in an a genomic update on the current Orthoebolavirus Outbreak? Check in to our monthly tools for tomorrow webinar this Friday to hear from the NIAID funded BRC's! Register here for the tools for tomorrow series: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

The BV-BRC team is happy to welcome researchers to learn and grow together at our current BV-BRC workshop! An excellent group of scientists learning more about bioinformatics and data analysis with the BV-BRC

Heading to #ASMicrobe 2026? The Bioinformatics Resource Centers including @bvbrc.bsky.social @brcanalytics.bsky.social, and Pathogen Data Network are planning their first ever Open Community Forum! June 5 • 6:15 PM–7:30 More info and optional RSVP: pathogendatanetwork.org/network/ Please share!

Join us in Chicago in June for our next BV-BRC workshop. More information can be found here: www.bv-brc.org/docs/news/20...

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/

Codeathon Report - NIAID BRC AI Codeathon 2025

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

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Turn biological data into insights, fast. Join this hands-on, high-energy workshop to learn practical tools and workflows you can use right away. Register now and level up your analysis! forms.office.com/r/ex7hpq9u2M

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. www.bv-brc.org/docs/news/20...

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.

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/...

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

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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. www.bv-brc.org/brc-niaid-ai...

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...

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...

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]

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 ...

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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 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.

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

Map updated to include Arizona human case.

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.