StaPH-B

Public health laboratories are undergoing a revolution with the application of next generation sequencing (NGS) to outbreak surveillance and identification.  Data analysis for NGS requires specialized training in bioinformatics, something that most state public health laboratories do not possess, nor do they have the funding to hire the staff and purchase the computational resources for such a program.  The StaPH-B Training channel aims to instruct public health microbiologists and epidemiologists on how to use freely available cloud resources to perform these analyses in-house with no specialized bioinformatics expertise.  This is made possible by the contributions of your state public health bioinformaticists (StaPH-B) in creating these tools and supporting their implementation.