The comparative genomics of microbial pathogens from all domains of life has become a big data problem. Databases already contain >200,000 assembled genomes from single species but adequate tools to reveal population structures are in their infancy. This meeting will bring together world-class bioinformaticians with experts on bacterial and viral genomes to illustrate multiple approaches to solving this challenge.

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Image: GrapeTree of 1610 Ebola genomes from the West African epidemic of 2013–2016. Credit: from Fig. 3 in Zhou et al., Genome research 28, 1395-1404 (2018)