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Virological.org

Virological.org is a discussion forum for the pre-publication sharing and discussion of pathogenic virus sequence data. The forum was launched in November 2014 by Andrew Rambaut. Scientists have often used the forum to publicly share the first available outbreak sequences, e.g. during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the 2022–2023 mpox outbreak, and the Ebola virus epidemic in Guinea.

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virological.org
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FoundedNovember 2014
OwnerAndrew Rambaut
URLvirological.org
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RegistrationRequired for posting (invite-only)
LaunchedNovember 2014 (2014-11)

Virological.org is a discussion forum for the pre-publication sharing and discussion of pathogenic virus sequence data. The forum was launched in November 2014 by Andrew Rambaut.1 Scientists have often used the forum to publicly share the first available outbreak sequences, e.g. during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic,23456789 the 2022–2023 mpox outbreak, and the Ebola virus epidemic in Guinea.10

Overview

Virological.org is used for rapid pre-publication dissemination11 of public health related information by a community of virologists, phylogeneticists and epidemiologists.12131415

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References

References

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