TBEV Analyzer: a Platform for Evolutionary Analysis of Tick-borne Encephalitis Virus

Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is a causative agent an extremely dangerous infectious disease, often characterized by damage to the central nervous system, which sometimes leads to serious health problems, such as disability and even death. Currently, there is no global organized platform that could help researchers to study the virus, understand its evolution and localization, conduct a variety of modern mathematical and phylogenetic analyzes, automatically draw conclusions and visualize them for interpretation and decision making. Such a system could lead, as a result, to more effective actions for predicting the virus evolution. In this paper, we propose an online platform called TBEV analyzer which serves as an analytical tool in two directions - fundamental research on the virus evolution and the solution of practical problems related to public health. The platform has been developed specifically for virologists, molecular epidemiologists, evolutionists and other researchers who work with tick-borne encephalitis virus. The platform has two major benefits: first, it allows the user to concentrate on the result of analysis without concerning about computational aspects, and second, with reproducibility of system, it provides unique results associated with specific target query.