The Viral Informatics Resource for Metagenome Exploration (VIROME) is based at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute of the University of Delaware. The website is hosted at the Institute of Genome Science (University of Maryland School of Medicine) as part of the National Science Foundation supported Data Intensive Academic Grid (DIAG) project. Ongoing development to deploy VIROME as a free metagenomic analysis tool, is being conducted in collaboration with members of the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA) project at the University of California San Diego with generous funding provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Additional support has come from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service National Research Initiative, and an NSF-EPSCoR partnership grant.
CAMERA Collaborators (University of California San Diego):
- Mark Ellisman, Ph.D.
- Jeff Groethe, Ph.D.
- Shulei Sun, Ph.D.
- Ilkay Altintas
- Abel Lin
- Jing Chen
- Eric Allen, Ph.D.
- Ramil Mansala
- Christopher Churas
- Madhusudan Gujral
- Adam Brust
- Daniel Wei
Annotators and Other Contributors:
- Erin Consuegra (Auburn University)
- Mark Liles, Ph.D. (Auburn University)
- Kurt Williamson, Ph.D. (J. Craig Venter Institute)
- Shannon Williamson, Ph.D. (J. Craig Venter Institute)
- Tom Schoenfeld, Ph.D. (Lucigen Corporation)
- Shellie Bench (University of California Santa Cruz)
- Thomas Hanson, Ph.D. (University of Delaware)
- Jacques Ravel, Ph.D. (University of Maryland)
- Mya Breitbart, Ph.D. (University of South Florida)
- Karyna Rosario (University of South Florida)
- Dhiritiman Ghosh, Ph.D. (University of Tennessee)
- Mark Radosevich, Ph.D. (University of Tennessee)
- Kris Roy (University of Tennessee)
VIROME TEAM (L to R):
- Research assistant: Daniel Nasko
- Investigators: K. Eric Wommack, Ph.D. and Shawn W. Polson, Ph.D.
- Lead developer: Jaysheel D. Bhavsar
- Past team members (not shown): Sandeep Dhankar, Deephan Mohan, Kanika Thapar
