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Scientists put interactive flu tracking at public's fingertips

Scientists put interactive flu tracking at public's fingertips. [Science Daily]

New methods of studying avian influenza strains and visually mapping their movement around the world will help scientists more quickly learn the behavior of the pandemic H1N1 flu virus, Ohio State University researchers say. The researchers linked many powerful computer systems together to analyze enormous amounts of genetic data collected from all publicly available isolated strains of the H5N1 virus -- the cause of avian flu. ...http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091116114530.htm

Article cited: Rasmus Hovmöller, Boyan Alexandrov, Jori Hardman, Daniel Janies. Tracking the geographical spread of avian influenza (H5N1) with multiple phylogenetic trees. Cladistics, 2009; DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00297.x | http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122683918/abstract?CRETR...

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