Women in the European Virus Bioinformatics Center.

Franziska Hufsky ORCID logo; Ana Abecasis ORCID logo; Patricia Agudelo-Romero ORCID logo; Magda Bletsa ORCID logo; Katherine Brown ORCID logo; Claudia Claus ORCID logo; Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer ORCID logo; Li Deng ORCID logo; Caroline C Friedel ORCID logo; María Inés Gismondi ORCID logo; +18 more... Evangelia Georgia Kostaki ORCID logo; Denise Kühnert ORCID logo; Urmila Kulkarni-Kale ORCID logo; Karin J Metzner ORCID logo; Irmtraud M Meyer ORCID logo; Laura Miozzi ORCID logo; Luca Nishimura ORCID logo; Sofia Paraskevopoulou ORCID logo; Alba Pérez-Cataluña ORCID logo; Janina Rahlff ORCID logo; Emma Thomson ORCID logo; Charlotte Tumescheit ORCID logo; Lia van der Hoek ORCID logo; Lore Van Espen ORCID logo; Anne-Mieke Vandamme ORCID logo; Maryam Zaheri ORCID logo; Neta Zuckerman ORCID logo; Manja Marz ORCID logo; (2022) Women in the European Virus Bioinformatics Center. Viruses, 14 (7). p. 1522. ISSN 1999-4915 DOI: 10.3390/v14071522
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Viruses are the cause of a considerable burden to human, animal and plant health, while on the other hand playing an important role in regulating entire ecosystems. The power of new sequencing technologies combined with new tools for processing "Big Data" offers unprecedented opportunities to answer fundamental questions in virology. Virologists have an urgent need for virus-specific bioinformatics tools. These developments have led to the formation of the European Virus Bioinformatics Center, a network of experts in virology and bioinformatics who are joining forces to enable extensive exchange and collaboration between these research areas. The EVBC strives to provide talented researchers with a supportive environment free of gender bias, but the gender gap in science, especially in math-intensive fields such as computer science, persists. To bring more talented women into research and keep them there, we need to highlight role models to spark their interest, and we need to ensure that female scientists are not kept at lower levels but are given the opportunity to lead the field. Here we showcase the work of the EVBC and highlight the achievements of some outstanding women experts in virology and viral bioinformatics.


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