Microbial Diversity Web Service "VAMPS" at 乐播传媒 Receives Sustaining Support

David Mark Welch, director of the 乐播传媒's Josephine Bay Paul Center and interim director of the 乐播传媒 Division of Research, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to sustain the web service  (Visualization and Analysis of Microbial Population Structures).

Astrolithium. Credit: David Patterson
Photo: Astrolithium. Credit: David Patterson

VAMPS is a free, open-source, database-driven website that allows researchers using data from massively-parallel sequencing (MPS, or 鈥渘ext-generation sequencing鈥) projects to analyze the diversity of microbial communities and the relationships between communities; to explore these analyses in an intuitive visual context; and to download analyses and images for publication. Based at the 乐播传媒, VAMPS currently hosts more than 200 projects encompassing more than 5,000 datasets and over 250 million sequence tags, and is used by nearly 900 investigators from around the world.