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* Who created the public sequence resource?
The *public sequence resource* is an initiative by [[https://github.com/arvados/bh20-seq-resource/graphs/contributors][bioinformatics]] and
-ontology experts who want to create something agile and useful for
-the wider research community. The initiative started at the COVID-19
+ontology experts who want to create something agile and useful for the
+wider research community. The initiative started at the COVID-19
biohackathon in April 2020 and is ongoing. The main project drivers
are Pjotr Prins (UTHSC), Peter Amstutz (Curii), Michael Crusoe (Common
-Workflow Language) and Thomas Liener (consultant, formerly EBI). But
-as this is a free software initiative the project represents major
-work by hundreds of software developers and ontology and data
+Workflow Language), Thomas Liener (consultant, formerly EBI) and
+Jerven Bolleman (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics).
+
+Notably, as this is a free software initiative, the project represents
+major work by hundreds of software developers and ontology and data
wrangling experts. Thank you everyone!
* How does the public sequence resource compare to other data resources?
@@ -62,6 +64,9 @@ public resources, including GISAID.
3. There is no need to set up pipelines and/or compute clusters
4. All workflows get triggered on uploading a new sequence
4. When someone (you?) improves the software/workflows and everyone benefits
+4. Your data gets automatically integrated with the Swiss Institure of
+ Bioinformatics COVID-19 knowledge base
+ https://covid-19-sparql.expasy.org/ (Elixir Switzerland)
Finally, if you upload your data here we have workflows that output
formatted data suitable for uploading to EBI resources (and soon