The Academic Resources for COVID-19 (ARC) is an online platform to match equipment, consumables, reagents and other critical resources needed by Swiss diagnostic laboratories involved in combating the Sars-CoV-2 virus with Swiss academic groups who are able and willing to provide them. More informations here: https://arc.epfl.ch/start/

You will find an easy interface to keep the  available supplies up-to-date here: https://arc.epfl.ch/supplies/
You can also see the list of current critical requests here: https://arc.epfl.ch/requests

Matching requests with supplies - together we can fight COVID-19.

The Swiss National COVID-19 Task Force is a national scientific advisory board set up specifically for the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Task Force’s mandate comes from the following federal bodies: the Federal Council Coronavirus Crisis Unit KSBC, the Federal Office of Public Health FOPH and the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI.
Its members comprise the following institutions: the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF, the ETH Board, Swissuniversities, and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. The Task Force is chaired by Prof. Martin Ackermann.

The Task Force Policy Briefs can be found here.
The Task Force Expert Groups can be found here.

This list of useful links has been compiled by Prof. Urs Greber (Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich):

• Coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2: Filtering fact from fiction in the infodemic. FEBS Letters, April 2020. Interview with Prof. Urs Greber answering questions like: Where did this virus come from? Why is SARS‐CoV‐2 more infectious than most coronaviruses? How stable can coronavirus be on particular surfaces? and much more

• Compilation of Drugs & Therapies against COVID-19 from the Austrian Institute of Health Technology. April 2020.Covid-19 Horizon Scanning Living Document Part 1 and Part 2
  
  
• COVID-19 Research Registry of the American Society of Microbiology (ASM). Basic virology, Treatment, Epidemiology, Diagnostics, Prevention, Reviews. Curators in Chief: Lynn Enquist (Princeton faculty, former President of ASM) & Harold Varmus (former NIH director, & Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1989) 

• COVID-19 Resources from the NIH, USA.
  
  
• Aargauer Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft ANG. ’Podcast Special - The World of Viruses' with Andrin Wacker and Urs Greber. March, 2020 (German only)
  
  
• "Einen sicheren Impfstoffzufinden, braucht Zeit". Interview with Prof. Urs Greber at Tagblatt, der Stadt Zürich. May 2020 (German only)

Here you will find a regularly updated list of dedicated data services, analysis tools, courses, by SIB experts and resources taking part in the global effort to improve knowledge sharing to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read more about our LS² Bioinformatics Intersection

Corona OMA Browse: https://corona.omabrowser.org
Web based Database Interface for Orthology prediction

Motivation:
The SARS-CoV-2 is a strain of coronavirus which causes the Covid19 disease in humans. Reaching a peak in the spring of 2020, the world was affected by a pandemic, causing many negative impacts on health, travel, the economy, education, and many other aspects of daily life. Out of this tragedy however, new scientific interest in the field of virology and specifically of coronaviruses has flourished. Scientists across the world are rapidly researching more into the subject, journals have fast-tracked papers, and the world waits anxiously to understand more about SARS-Cov-2 and to ultimately obtain a vaccine. 

What is it:
In order to facilitate the functional and evolutionary aspects of coronaviruses, we have created the Corona Oma Browser. This is a website with all the functionality of the OMA Browser, but for 119 Nidovirales species. This encompasses the human SARS viruses, but also other coronaviruses and other single-stranded RNA viruses. Some of these viruses affect humans, while others affect bats, mice, horses, pigs, turkeys, cats, ferrets, etc. This browser is intended to be a resource for researchers in the coronavirus community.

Cool things with have in the browser and what we can show with it:
See which species are included

• Function of genes with Gene Ontology
• Create a phylogenetic tree with Export Marker Genes function
• Explore patterns of duplication and loss with iham visualization
• Obtain gene families with the Hierarchical Orthologous Groups
• Assess the conservation of local genomic neighborhood across multiple species
• Mapping new gene sequences to existing gene families and inferring the function
• Visualization of domain architecture and comparison to other HOGs

Christophe Dessimoz is group leader at Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and current president of our LS² Bioinformatics Intersection. Christophe Dessimoz lab: https://lab.dessimoz.org/

Find under the COVID-19 ressources provided by scientific journals:

AAAS, COVID-19 ressources
https://www.aaas.org/programs/covid-19-resources

American Society for Microbiology, COVID-19-Research
https://asm.org/COVID/COVID-19-Research-Registry/Home

E-life, COVID-19 collection of articles
https://elifesciences.org/collections/5587bfbf/covid-19-a-collection-of-articles

Lancet, COVID-19 Resource Centre
https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus

Nature, COVID-19 research
https://www.nature.com/subjects/sars-cov-2#research-and-reviews

PLoS, COVID-19 Resources and Updates
https://plos.org/covid-19/

More ressources for the Public and Scientists:

50 US Experts to Trust in a Pandemic
https://elemental.medium.com/50-experts-to-trust-in-a-pandemic-fe58932950e7

AAAS Voices of the pandemic
https://www.sciencemag.org/tags/voices-pandemic

Discover reliable COVID-19 research program
https://openknowledgemaps.org/covis/