title: Website for avian flu information and bioinformatics.
abstract: Highly pathogenic influenza A virus H5N1 has spread out worldwide and raised the public concerns. This increased the output of influenza virus sequence data as well as the research publication and other reports. In order to fight against H5N1 avian flu in a comprehensive way, we designed and started to set up the Website for Avian Flu Information ( http://www.avian-flu.info ) from 2004. Other than the influenza virus database available, the website is aiming to integrate diversified information for both researchers and the public. From 2004 to 2009, we collected information from all aspects, i.e. reports of outbreaks, scientific publications and editorials, policies for prevention, medicines and vaccines, clinic and diagnosis. Except for publications, all information is in Chinese. Till April 15, 2009, the cumulative news entries had been over 2000 and research papers were approaching 5000. By using the curated data from Influenza Virus Resource, we have set up an influenza virus sequence database and a bioinformatic platform, providing the basic functions for the sequence analysis of influenza virus. We will focus on the collection of experimental data and results as well as the integration of the data from the geological information system and avian influenza epidemiology.
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology (CASPMI), Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100101, China.
authors.forename: Di
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Quan-He
authors.initials: QH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Lin-Huan
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Yi-Mei
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Lao
authors.forename: Xiao-Jing
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: George Fu
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Jun-Cai
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D053124:Influenza A Virus, H5N1 Subtype / Q000235:genetics; D005585:Influenza in Birds / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet