On Twitter (via Dr. Rambaut below) I found out GISAID is where are the individual patient isolates of the Wuhan coronavirus sequences are going. That may give you all some more meat for a Hackathon. I assume you can just register an account.

Andrew Rambaut on Twitter (https://twitter.com/arambaut) is actually doing a lot of real time tweeting on phylogeny analysis and evolution.

Thanks for pointing this out. We are hosting a Biohackathon at OpenCell London on this on Sunday: 

BioHackHereNOW - Wuhan 🧬 Virus 🦠

 

Short Notice *Biohackathon* Sunday 26th

 

The Wuhan virus genome has just appeared on Genbank. We would like to improve our understanding and contribute to the publics understanding.

 

This outbreak, occurring in one of the most populous and economically significant countries in the world, is serious. A case has also now been reported in the US. This is a short notice hack and would therefore require significant participation.

 

This isn't a "turn up and see what happens" event. Get in touch with us if you have an idea, an interest in the area or ideally a hack idea to bring to the table. As usual we can only take 10 people (slightly + for this one). If you want to join please *mail > hello@opencell.bio WITH subjectline [Biohackathon] * Give a short overview of your background, skills and interest and why you would like to take part.

 

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On Tuesday, 21 January 2020 12:11:21 UTC, Reginald Smith wrote:

Not sure if anyone here has experience with viral genome phylogenetics, phylodynamics etc. I am more knowledgeable about bacteria but for anyone's interest, the Wuhan coronavirus making the news now has full genomes in GenBank. It is small like most viruses (29 kbp). Several isolates seem available:

Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus isolate Wuhan-Hu-1, complete genome