Epidemic Tracking Tool Wins Open Science Prize | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | The JAMA Network

"A tool for tracking viral epidemics developed by Trevor Bedford, PhD, at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Richard Neher, PhD, at the University of Basel in Switzerland, was awarded the second annual Open Science Prize, selected from almost 100 other projects from 45 countries submitted for the award. The researchers will receive $230 000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the UK-based Wellcome Trust, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to further develop a prototype of their online platform nextstrain.org."