Culicoides.net : passé, présent et futur de l'information en ligne

Résumé

As is typical for a reference laboratory, the Institute for Animal Health (IAH) struggles with the problem of managing masses of epidemiological data. To solve this problem, it launched the Relais project (Relais Epi-informatic Laboratory Infrastructure) to combine and inter-relate its various information resources. This was done with success for foot-and-mouth disease and it is now being extended to bluetongue. Sample, analysis and sequence data are being combined in real time within a single database for visualization, reporting and analysis. This database contains all sample data collected by IAH, and all publicly avail­able molecular sequences (over 400). In time, another 2000 laboratory sequences and 100 full genomes will follow. The website Bluetonguevirus.org has been launched to make avail­able this information to the other laboratories and the world. We are currently engaged in extending our database and website to encompass taxonomic data, including online species charac­teristics, distribution and seasonality databases for Culicoides. Facilities for uploading and sharing data are available, and the software may be freely distributed.