Scientific infrastructure for virus research

EurekAlert  March 24, 2020
To simplify the exchange of data between the authorities, institutions and laboratories that are dealing with the SARS-CoV-2 virus researchers in Germany are providing the technical infrastructure: their Galaxy platform can handle analysis of Big Data in the life sciences. After being initiated at Penn State University, Galaxy was further developed by German researchers as part of the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI). Data are freely accessible online. Researchers who want to use the server do not need programming skills: all settings can be made using a graphic interface…read more. Data and analyses relating to SARS-CoV-2 are available on the University of Freiburg’s Galaxy platform   Current data from the Diamond Light Source institution on Galaxy