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🌐 What is the RdRp summit?

The “RdRp Summit” is a discussion-centric event that aims to foster reproducibility, collaboration, and interoperability in omics-based RNA virus discovery.

Recognizing the central role of RdRp in RNA virus research, a global and interdisciplinary community of scientists established the RdRp Summit in 2023 (Valencia, Spain), providing an open forum for discussing detection algorithms, data interoperability, and functional inference; this initiative has since evolved into a recurring international meeting, with the second RdRp Summit held in 2025 (Lisbon, Portugal) as a satellite event of ViBioM 2025, where participants collectively advanced benchmarking efforts, structural and phylogenetic analyses, and best practices for large-scale RNA virus discovery.

🗓️ Events

🌏 Community Projects

The RdRp Summit currently hosts four ongoing community projects, each driven by open collaboration:

Benchmarking Challenge(s)
Virus–Host Relationship Inference
RNA Virus Journal Club
Structure-Guided Phylogeny and Functional Analysis

Each project is community-led and welcomes new participants! Whether you are interested in data benchmarking, evolutionary relationships, or integrating structural information into viral phylogenetics, there is a place for you to contribute.

💬 Most of the discussions take place on Slack, and everyone is encouraged to join and share ideas. Wanna join us but can’t find the link? Send us a message through the contact form below!

🧬 For the RNA Virus Journal Club, we are also collecting speaker nominations for upcoming sessions.

If you’d like to nominate yourself or someone else, please use the following form:

👉 Speaker Nomination Form

Let’s continue building an open, collaborative community exploring the RNA virus world together!

✈️ Past RdRp Summits

🚀 News

📎 Related papers

Charon, J. et al. Consensus statement from the first RdRp Summit: advancing RNA virus discovery at scale across communities. Front. Virol. 4, (2024).