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ICTV's Computational Virus Taxonomy Challenge is now open, inviting bioinformaticians to classify a set of viral sequences using a bioinformatics pipeline of their choice or design.

Pipelines should be fully and easily reproducible and code and environment to run it should be made available, and will be evaluated using the Taxonomy Release MSL39 as well as reproducibility, speed, accuracy at different ranks, for different types of viruses, etc.

Contact Cédric Lood and Bas Dutilh with questions or suggestions!