Development of EpiFlu™ v1.0 Database Application

Enabled by a grant from the Max-Planck-Foundation, the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, through its Department of Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Thomas Lengauer, was GISAID's first technology partner, contributing substantially to the build up of the first EpiFlu database application. Concept and scientific guidance for the development was provided by experts from National Influenza Centers, WHO CC's and FAO-OIE reference labs.

List of Contributors

Concept and scientific guidance for the development of v1.0 by:

- Catherine Smith (WHO’CC at US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta) 
- Naomi Komadina (WHO’CC for Reference and Research on Influenza, Melbourne) 
- Rebecca Garten (WHO’CC at US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta) 
- Vicki Gregory (WHO’CC at National Institute for Medical Research, London) 
- Mia Brytting (Swedish National Influenza Center, Stockholm) 
- Alice Fusaro (FAO-OIE Ref Lab at Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Padua) 
- Isabella Monne (Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Padua) 
- Brunhilde Schweiger (Robert-Koch-Institute, Berlin) 

The EpiFlu v1.0 development team was led by Dr. Joachim Büch, Principle Investigator. Georg Friedrich (back-end development), Gunter Bach and Ali Djaoui (front-end development), Kirsten Roomp (data curation), Ruth Christmann (administrative support)

Additional Acknowledgements

- Martin Beer (FAO-OIE Ref Lab at Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald)
- Seiichiro Fujisaki (WHO’CC at National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo)
- Dirk Höper (FAO-OIE Ref Lab at Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald)
- David Handojo Muljono (Eijkman Institute, Jakarta)  
- Vivi Setiawati (National Institute of Health Research and Development, Jakarta)
- Elke Starick (FAO-OIE Ref Lab at Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald)
- Thorsten Wolff (Robert-Koch-Institute, Berlin)
- Lan Yu (WHO’CC at China National Influenza Center, Beijing)

- Joachim Büch et al, poster presented at Options for the Control of Influenza VII, Hong Kong 2010
- Joachim Büch et al, poster presented at Options for the Control of Influenza X, Singapore 2019