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1/ 🎂 Pathoplexus turns TWO! 🎉 Two years ago we launched with an idea: what if pathogen data sharing put open access, speed, ease of use, & credit for data generators at its center? Here's what our community has built since: 📰 Read the full update: pathoplexus.org/news/2026-08...

2/ 🦠 We've grown from 4 founding pathogens to 15 - including outbreak-driven additions like Ebola Bundibugyo & Andes virus. ⏲️Teams in the DRC and Uganda shared the first BDBV genomes within days of outbreak confirmation 🌍Labs across 4 countries did the same for ANDV

3/ 📊 Two years, in numbers: - 18,659 sequences directly submitted across 14 pathogens - Contributions from every populated continent: North America (4,737), Africa (4,194), South America (3,612), Europe (3,597), Oceania (2,157), Asia (362)

4/ 🧬 Steady, ongoing sharing across our pathogens: - Dengue (3,557) - Mpox (3,686) - RSV-A (3,618) - RSV-B (3,653) - Measles (1,908) - West Nile (993) - BDBV (648) - HMPV (488) - Ebola Zaire (72) - plus critical additions to ANDV, Marburg, CCHF, Yellow Fever & Ebola Sudan.

5/ 💡 New capabilities added this year: - SeqSet DOI tracking - see when your sequences are cited in publications - Hierarchical taxonomy search - find all sequences from a host in one query - Link-out Tools - jump straight to Nextclade, Sealion, UShER & Taxonium

6/ 🔓 In the past two years, we've seen many Restricted-Use sequences have gone fully Open once manuscripts were published - showing that researchers want to share and want their data reused - they just want credit for generating it.

8/ 🙏 None of this happens on its own. Thank you to our Executive Board, our members who guide and hold us accountable, our developer team, and every researcher, lab, and institute who has chosen to share data through Pathoplexus.

9/ ❤️ To everyone who's submitted a sequence, flagged a curation issue, joined our Scientific Advisory Board, presented a poster, funded our work, or told a colleague about us - thank you. 2️⃣ Here's to year two, and many more to come! 🎊 🔗 Full post: pathoplexus.org/news/2026-08...