数据库名称：EMPRES-i
数据库简述：The EMPRES-i genetic module
所属国家/地区：Switzerland
数据库主要信息：Combining epidemiological information, genetic characterization and geomapping in the analysis of influenza can contribute to a better understanding and description of influenza epidemiology and ecology, including possible virus reassortment events. Furthermore, integration of information such as agroecological farming system characteristics can provide new knowledge on risk factors of influenza emergence and spread. Integrating viral characteristics into an animal disease information system is therefore expected to provide a unique tool to trace-and-track particular virus strains; generate clade distributions and spatiotemporal clusters; screen for distribution of viruses with specific molecular markers; identify potential risk factors; and analyze or map viral characteristics related to vaccines used for control and/or prevention. For this purpose, a genetic module was developed within EMPRES-i (FAO’s global animal disease information system) linking epidemiological information from influenza events with virus characteristics and enabling combined analysis. An algorithm was developed to act as the interface between EMPRES-i disease event data and publicly available influenza virus sequences in OpenfluDB. This algorithm automatically computes potential links between outbreak event and sequences, which are subsequently manually validated by experts. Subsequently, other virus characteristics such as antiviral resistance can then be associated to outbreak data. To visualize such characteristics on a geographic map, shape files with virus characteristics to overlay on other EMPRES-i map layers (e.g. animal densities) can be generated. The genetic module allows export of associated epidemiological and sequence data for further analysis. FAO has made this tool available for scientists and policy makers. Contributions are expected from users to improve and validate the number of linked influenza events and isolate information as well as the quality of information.
建立年份：2014
联系信息：Contact information
University/Institution:
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Address:
Animal Health Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 10532 Rome, Italy and 2Vital-IT/Swiss-Prot Groups, SIB, Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, Quartier Sorge, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
City:
Lausanne
Province/State:
Country/Region:
Switzerland
Contact name (PI/Team):
Ioannis Xenarios
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk):
ioannis.xenarios@isb-sib.ch
