Organization:Nextstrain

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Nextstrain
Formation2015; 11 years ago (2015)
Location
Fields
Key people
  • Trevor Bedford
  • Richard Neher
  • Emma Hodcroft
Award(s)
Websitehttps://nextstrain.org

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]

Covid-19 pandemic

Nextstrain and its results have been widely quoted during the COVID-19 pandemic.[6][7][8][9]

Awards

In March 2017, Nextstrain won the inaugural Open Science Prize, an initiative of the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).[10]

In May 2020, Nextstrain and Trevor Bedford (Associate professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)[11] received a Webby Special Achievement Award for the web tool.[12]

See also

  • INSDC
  • GISAID
  • PANGOLIN
  • List of COVID-19 simulation models

References

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. 
  3. ↑ Reza, Nosheen (6 April 2020). "nextstrain RNA, DNA, and COVID-19"]. https://earlycareervoice.professional.heart.org/tag/nextstrain/. 
  4. ↑ 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. 
  5. ↑ "Nextstrain Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution Section 'Explore pathogens". https://nextstrain.org/. 
  6. ↑ 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/. 
  7. ↑ "Spread of a SARS-CoV-2 variant through Europe in the summer of 2020". Nature 595 (7869): 707–712. July 2021. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03677-y. PMID 34098568. 
  8. ↑ "Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force" (in en). https://sciencetaskforce.ch/en/nextstrain-phylogenetic-analysis/. 
  9. ↑ "Nextstrain, Sequencing & the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic" (in en). 2020. https://www.medartbasel.ch/fileadmin/files/2020/medArt_2020/PDF/Hodcroft-Neher_Nextstrain.pdf. 
  10. ↑ "Online Virus Tracking Tool Nextstrain Wins Inaugural Open Science Prize | National Institute of General Medical Sciences". https://nigms.nih.gov/biobeat/2017/03/online-virus-tracking-tool-nextstrain-wins-inaugural-open-science-prize. 
  11. ↑ "40 Under 40 Healthcare". https://fortune.com/40-under-40/2020/trevor-bedford/. 
  12. ↑ "Webby Special Achievement". https://winners.webbyawards.com/2020/specialachievement/270/nextstrainorg. 
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