10/ 🎤 We've been busy on the road! Highlights:
- Talks at Imperial College London, LS2 , BRC Consortium, SSI Denmark, DeZi & UNITEDengue and more
📌 Next up: 18 March - Emma at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Virology!

9/ 🛠️ More tech:
- Improved group management - warnings for duplicate group names & easier ways to find & join existing groups
- Expanded measles dataset via higher-level INSDC taxon ingestion (thanks to Jover Lee for the tip!)

8/ 🛠️ Tech improvements:
- Reverse complement retries now boost alignment success
- New CCHF dataset with lineages for the S segment
- Simpler multi-segment upload with the new fastaIds field
- Mutation search redesigned for segmented viruses - no need to append segment name!

7/ 🌐 Policy & governance: Pathoplexus has been included as a 'Relevant Stakeholder' in the WHO Pathogen Access and Benefits Sharing IGWG negotiations - allowing us to participate directly and share our experience running an open-access, restricted-use system.

6/ 💰 Funding news: We're grateful to have received a $500,000 grant from Kanro, the philanthropic initiative supported by Vitalik Buterin. This helps sustain and expand our open infrastructure for transparent, equitable pathogen genomic data sharing. 🙏

5/ 🧫 On the first full-genome measles sequences from Senegal, Dr Idrissa Dieng (Institut Pasteur de Dakar) noted: "By sharing through Pathoplexus, we ensure that African-generated data are visible, valued, and integrated into international public health action." 🌍

4/ 📊 Highlights include:
- 593 new RSV-A sequences (Australia, Kenya, Netherlands, Argentina & more)
- 445 new RSV-B sequences (Australia, Germany, Kenya, Brazil & more)
- 357 new measles sequences - see below!
- 130 new mpox sequences, including the 1st from Angola & India

3/ 📊 Data growth: Since November, over 1,500 new directly-submitted sequences have been added across six pathogens, from labs in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. We now host over 10,400 directly-submitted sequences total.

2/ 🗣️ Dr Anderson Brito (ITpS, Brazil) explained the importance of this: "Integrating Dengue & Yellow Fever into Pathoplexus means providing endemic countries a transparent, equitable way to share data under terms that protect generators' rights - essential for public health."