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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday May 14 2020, @01:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words dept.

COVID-19 Disease Map: LCSB researchers coordinate international effort:

COVID-19 Disease Map: LCSB researchers coordinate international effort

In the fight against the current pandemic, researchers of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg are coordinating an international collaboration to build a COVID-19 Disease Map: a comprehensive repository incorporating all current knowledge on the virus-host interaction mechanisms. This online tool will support research and improve our understanding of the disease.

In an article published this week in Nature Scientific Data, the researchers present their project and call for contributions from the R&D community worldwide.

Leveraging over a decade of expertise in disease maps and community building, the LCSB researchers are organising this project as a rapid response to the current epidemic. 162 contributors from 25 countries around the world are now participating in a collaborative effort. Extracting and assembling data from the existing literature and the fast-growing number of COVID-19 publications thanks to a rigorous and efficient organisation, they are building a reliable knowledge repository.

The disease map will provide a graphical, interactive representation of the disease mechanisms and a computational resource for analyses and disease modelling. "This platform will allow domain experts, such as clinicians, virologists, and immunologists, to collaborate with data scientists and computational biologists for a precise formulation of models and accurate data interpretation," explains Prof. Reinhard Schneider, head of the Bioinformatics Core at the LCSB.

Reference: M. Ostaszewski, et. al. COVID-19 Disease Map, building a computational repository of SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interaction mechanisms. Scientific Data 7, 136 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0477-8


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by driverless on Thursday May 14 2020, @02:21PM (4 children)

    by driverless (4770) on Thursday May 14 2020, @02:21PM (#994251)

    Maybe data from the US can be smuggled out and published under an alias, if Trump doesn't want it to escape from the US.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday May 14 2020, @02:57PM (2 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday May 14 2020, @02:57PM (#994261) Journal

    US data is worthless now. The propaganda machine has completely mangled it.

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    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday May 14 2020, @03:46PM (1 child)

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 14 2020, @03:46PM (#994277) Journal

      US population level data is pretty bad, yes, but this appears to be about interactions at the bio-chemistry level.

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      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday May 14 2020, @04:02PM

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday May 14 2020, @04:02PM (#994283) Journal

        Impossible to know. We allow too much secrecy. What little info is being released is for entertainment purposes only

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday May 14 2020, @10:22PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday May 14 2020, @10:22PM (#994422) Homepage

    You know what has been smuggled into the U.S. and other Western nations? Ukrainian Black-market nukes smuggled in by Israeli agents through Long Beach and Mexico. That what this "pandemic" is cover for, and that's why there's increased incidence of military rotary-wing aircraft flying around big cities. It's a race against time to find and disarm the Israeli nukes before Israel detonates them in retaliation for rooting out their spies colluding with China and us refusing to fight their wars for them. There's much emphasis on coastal areas because Israel also intends to have one of their Dolphin subs fire a missile at us and blame it on North Korea, just like that time when Hawaii's early warning system was "erroneously" triggered. The cruise missile that hit the Pentagon on 9/11 was also fired from an Israeli Dolphin sub.

    You have a choice to make, Israel. Us, or China. [haaretz.com]