🗓 Pathoplexus turns ONE! 🎂🎉
In the past year we’ve grown from 4 pathogens to a truly global, community-driven platform for transparent, equitable & impactful pathogen sequence sharing.
📰 Read the full update: https://pathoplexus.org/news/2025-08-27-happy-birthday-world
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A Year of Milestones 🌍
Together with our community we have:
• Added mpox (Dec 2024) + RSV & HMPV (May 2025)
• Received direct uploads from 5 continents - incl. more mpox in 2025 than other databases
• Rolled out major software updates & new analysis integrations
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We’ve also:
• Enabled rapid public-health use while protecting publication rights via Restricted-Use sharing
• Presented at WHO IPSN events, major conferences & workshops
• Featured in Lancet Microbe, Science, Nature, and national media
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And… 🏆
We received the 2024 Swiss National Open Research Data Prize for our commitment to openness & community governance – all while being powered largely by volunteer effort!
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🎉 New in August: Measles virus joins Pathoplexus!
Following strong community support, we added MeV data submission (with Open & Restricted-Use options, as always) and powerful search & data access for MeV
pathoplexus.org/measles/search
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Why now?
• Measles cases have surged in the US in 2025 - real-time genomic tracking is vital
• Global travel + declining vaccination rates raise outbreak risk
• More labs are sequencing MeV than ever before- enabling insights into spread & evolution
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Other news:
We’ve received
🧬 256 new direct mpox sequences from Sierra Leone, Portugal, Germany, Côte d’Ivoire, DRC, Ireland & Central African Republic
🧬 308 new direct West Nile sequences from California & Nebraska, USA
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💡 New tech:
🔁GISAID accessions can now be linked in metadata for supported pathogens
🖱️Drag your mouse over checkboxes to quickly select multiple sequences
🔎Find sequences faster than ever with the new Accession search at the top of the home page
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📢 We’re also celebrating a successful ETH4D Research Challenge grant with ETH Zurich & Stephen Kanyerezi (Uganda) @kanyerezi30 to grow Pathoplexus & Loculus – with workshops, training, user feedback & community building.
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We are so grateful to our contributors, curators, members & partners worldwide ❤️
Here’s to Year 2 - and an even more connected, equitable future for pathogen genomics! 🎊
Read our whole post here: https://pathoplexus.org/news/2025-08-27-happy-birthday-world
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Chaoran Chen
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