Webinars
MAAGE periodically offers live instructional webinars where users can participate and ask questions along the way. The webinars are recorded and made available for viewing afterward from the MAAGE YouTube Channel.
Back to Basics Virus Series
October 11 through December 6th, 2023 The MAAGE offered a Bioinformatics Webinar Series on October 11, 25, November 8, 29th, and December 6th. The webinars showed researchers how to analyze and explore viral pathogen data using the MAAGE website. The first webinar focused on an overview of the MAAGE and showed tips and tricks for searching for data, creating a workspace, and sharing private data with collaborators. The second focused on the annotation tools within the MAAGE—the third focused on the phylogenetic tree tools and ways to visualize metadata on those trees. The fourth showcased our sequence submission tool and other influenza tools. Finally, we finished up with our protein tools. All recordings will be posted on YouTube.
The final two will be posted soon.
Finding and Analyzing RSV and Influenza Data in the MAAGE
November 29 and December 13, 2022 The MAAGE team offered two Bioinformatics webinars covering the data types available for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and Influenza Virus that can be found in the Midwest Alliance for Applied Genomic Epidemiology (MAAGE) database. Several tools and services that can be used for RSV bioinformatic analysis were demonstrated. (Click here to see the original webinar announcement and schedule).
Monkeypox and Orthopoxvirus Mini Symposium
September 15, 2022. MAAGE organized the Monkeypox and Orthopoxvirus Mini Symposium in response to the global 2022 monkeypox virus outbreak. The presentations begins with a brief primer on monkeypox virus. Addtional topics include bioinformatic resources and tools currently available and in development for the purpose of studying monkeypox virus, as well as updates on the analysis of emerging MPXV genomes. (Click here to see the original webinar announcement and schedule).
Phylogenomic characterization & signs of microevolution in 2022 multi-country outbreak of MPXV
A distinct phylogenetic cluster of MPXV genomes suggests an early & cryptic spread of the virus
Genetic variability in early sequences from the 2022 global monkeypox outbreak
Detection of monkeypox viral DNA in a routine wastewater monitoring program
Monkeypox virus whole genome sequencing using combination of NextGenPCR and Oxford Nanopore
Applying the COVID-19 Lessons Learned to Other Pathogens of Public Health Concern
Poxviridae & the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses: ICTV
Monkeypox/Orthopox data and tools in the Midwest Alliance for Applied Genomic Epidemiology
Viral Bioinformatics Research Center: Bioinformatics for Poxviruses
Advanced Genomic Sequencing for H2H Transmission Analysis of Poxvirus
Plumbing a MPXV genome sequence assembly, annotation, and public database submission pipeline
Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens
March 8 - June 14, 2022. This webinar series, created in collaboration with our sister BRC, VEuPathDB, is geared towards researchers working on ticks and the bacterial, viral or eukaryotic pathogens they transmit. The webinars focus on highlighting data and bioinformatic tools provided by MAAGE and VEuPathDB. (Click here to see the original webinar announcement and schedule).
Ticks: How to analyze omics and field population data sets in VectorBase (VEuPathDB)
Resources for eukaryotic pathogens transmitted by ticks (VEuPathDB)
Comparative genomics analysis of tick-transmitted bacteria uisng MAAGE (MAAGE)
Flaviviridae virus in ticks (MAAGE)
SNP and RNA-Seq analysis of bacteria transmitted by ticks - (MAAGE)
Introduction to MAAGE
February 25 - April 1, 2022. This webinar series provides overviews of each major aspect of the MAAGE resource. The webinars were recorded and are available from the links below. (Click here to see the original webinar announcement and schedule).