Grid-based International Network for Flu observation (g-INFO).
The 2009 H1N1 outbreak has demonstrated that continuing vigilance, planning, and strong public health research capability are essential defenses against emerging health threats. Molecular epidemiology of influenza virus strains provides scientists with clues about the temporal and geographic evolution of the virus. In the present paper, researchers from France and Vietnam are proposing a global surveillance network based on grid technology: the goal is to federate influenza data servers and deploy automatically molecular epidemiology studies. A first prototype based on AMGA and the WISDOM Production Environment extracts daily from NCBI influenza H1N1 sequence data which are processed through a phylogenetic analysis pipeline deployed on EGEE and AuverGrid e-infrastructures. The analysis results are displayed on a web portal (http://g-info.healthgrid.org) for epidemiologists to monitor H1N1 pandemics.
Doan
Trung-Tung
TT
Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Informatique, L'équipe Modélisation et Simulation Informatique, 42, Ta Quang Buu, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Bernard
Aurélien
A
Da-Costa
Ana Lucia
AL
Bloch
Vincent
V
Le
Thanh-Hoa
TH
Legre
Yannick
Y
Maigne
Lydia
L
Salzemann
Jean
J
Sarramia
David
D
Nguyen
Hong-Quang
HQ
Breton
Vincent
V
D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006801:Humans; D053118:Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology*; D038622:Internationality; D011159:Population Surveillance