The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2023.
Franziska Hufsky, Ana B Abecasis, Artem Babaian, Sebastian Beck, Liam Brierley, Simon Dellicour, Christian Eggeling, Santiago F Elena, Udo Gieraths, Anh D Ha, Will Harvey, Terry C Jones, Kevin Lamkiewicz, Gabriel L Lovate, Dominik Lücking, Martin Machyna, Luca Nishimura, Maximilian K Nocke, Bernard Y Renard, Shoichi Sakaguchi, Lygeri Sakellaridi, Jannes Spangenberg, Maria Tarradas-Alemany, Sandra Triebel, Yulia Vakulenko, Rajitha Yasas Wijesekara, Fernando González-Candelas, Sarah Krautwurst, Alba Pérez-Cataluña, Walter Randazzo, Gloria Sánchez, Manja Marz
Author Information
Franziska Hufsky: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Ana B Abecasis: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Artem Babaian: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Sebastian Beck: Leibniz Institute of Virology, Department Viral Zoonoses-One Health, 20251 Hamburg, Germany. ORCID
Liam Brierley: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Simon Dellicour: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Christian Eggeling: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Santiago F Elena: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Udo Gieraths: Institute of Virology, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Anh D Ha: Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA. ORCID
Will Harvey: The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH25 9RG, UK. ORCID
Terry C Jones: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Kevin Lamkiewicz: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Gabriel L Lovate: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Dominik Lücking: Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany. ORCID
Martin Machyna: Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Host-Pathogen-Interactions, 63225 Langen, Germany. ORCID
Luca Nishimura: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Maximilian K Nocke: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Bernard Y Renard: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Shoichi Sakaguchi: Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Osaka 569-8686, Japan. ORCID
Lygeri Sakellaridi: Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Versbacher Str. 7, 97078 Würzburg, Germany. ORCID
Jannes Spangenberg: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Maria Tarradas-Alemany: Computational Genomics Lab., Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Institut de Biomedicina UB (IBUB), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 08028 Barcelona, Spain. ORCID
Sandra Triebel: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Yulia Vakulenko: Martsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology, Tropical and Vector Borne Diseases, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, 119991 Moscow, Russia. ORCID
Rajitha Yasas Wijesekara: Institute for Bioinformatics, University of Medicine Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 8, 17475 Greifswald, Germany.
Fernando González-Candelas: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Sarah Krautwurst: RNA Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Analysis, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Alba Pérez-Cataluña: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Walter Randazzo: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Gloria Sánchez: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
Manja Marz: European Virus Bioinformatics Center, 07743 Jena, Germany. ORCID
The 2023 International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting was held in Valencia, Spain, from 24-26 May 2023, attracting approximately 180 participants worldwide. The primary objective of the conference was to establish a dynamic scientific environment conducive to discussion, collaboration, and the generation of novel research ideas. As the first in-person event following the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the meeting facilitated highly interactive exchanges among attendees. It served as a pivotal gathering for gaining insights into the current status of virus bioinformatics research and engaging with leading researchers and emerging scientists. The event comprised eight invited talks, 19 contributed talks, and 74 poster presentations across eleven sessions spanning three days. Topics covered included machine learning, bacteriophages, virus discovery, virus classification, virus visualization, viral infection, viromics, molecular epidemiology, phylodynamic analysis, RNA viruses, viral sequence analysis, viral surveillance, and metagenomics. This report provides rewritten abstracts of the presentations, a summary of the key research findings, and highlights shared during the meeting.
