The videos of talks from VIZBI 2013 final session on ‘Alignments & Phylogenetics” are now available on http://vizbi.org/videos/. Bruno Sobral talks about development and deployment of cyberinfrastructure supporting infectious disease research. Bruno demonstrates how collaboration with the bench scientists to learn about their needs, uses and challenges can lead to design of more effective resources for data exploration and analysis. He emphasises the importance of designing in a user-centric manner and highlights the importance of human-computer interface professionals in the design process. Susannah Tringe talks about metagenomics analysis tools and the challenges of gaining a systems-level understanding of a microbial community. She notes that there are some good analysis tools available for analysis at the 16S sequence and unassembled metagenome level, but acknowledges that more effort into analysis and visualisation solutions are required at the microbial community and ecosystem level. In the final talk, Daniel Janies showcases SupraMap, a web-based app that integrates genetic sequences of pathogens with geographic data points to map the spread of diseases and track mutations.
