ViPR: an open bioinformatics database and analysis resource for virology research

Pickett, Brett E.; Sadat, Eva L.; Zhang, Yun; Noronha, Jyothi M.; Squires, R. Burke; Hunt, Victoria; Liu, Mengya; Kumar, Sanjeev; Zaremba, Sam; Gu, Zhiping; Zhou, Liwei; Larson, Christopher N.; Dietrich, Jonathan; Klem, Edward B.; Scheuermann, Richard H.

Save to the Workbench. The Workbench feature in ViPR is relatively novel among virus database resources and is used to store search and analysis results in designated personal workspaces on the ViPR server. Distinct personal workspaces can be established for each virus family by providing a valid email address and a password for login purposes. The Workbench provides an interface to construct 'working sets', consisting of the results from one or more searches, and allows the re-use of sequence data from various strains in multiple analyses (Supplementary Figure S5) . Additionally, users can upload their own custom sequence data and other files to the Workbench for analysis using the various tools provided by the system, and can share items within their Workbench with collaborators, virtually. For the current use case, all the genome sequence records from the query result page described above are saved as a custom working set for subsequent analysis.