This year’s VAST Challenge focuses on visual analytics applications for both large scale situation analysis and cyber security. We have two mini-challenges to test your analytical skills and confound your visual analytics applications. In the first mini-challenge, (the imaginary) BankWorld's largest...

Mini Challenge 1: Wiki Editors The Paraiso movement is controversial and is having considerable social impact in a specific area of the world. We have extracted a segment of the Paraiso (the movement) Wikipedia edits page. Please note this is not the Paraiso Manifesto Wiki page which is part of the...

The VAST 2009 Challenge scenario concerned a fictitious, cyber security event. An employee leaked important information from an embassy to a criminal organization. Participants were asked to discover the identity ofthe employee and the structure of the criminal organization. Participants were...

Last updated on 2024-02-11T22:41:43+00:00 by LN Anderson Ebola Virus Experiment EH001 The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the human patient peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) response to Zaire Ebola virus (strain Makona) infection during the 2013-2016 epidemic in West Africa...

Last updated on 2024-02-11T22:41:43+00:00 by LN Anderson MERS-CoV Experiment MCL003 The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the human host response to wild-type infectious clone of Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (icMERS-CoV) infection and mockulum. Sample data was obtained...

Systems Virology Lethal Human Virus, SARS-CoV Experiment SHAE004 New uploads pending The purpose of this SARS experiment was to obtain samples for transcriptome analysis in Human Airway Epithelial (HAE) cells infected with SARS-CoV, SARS deltaORF6, SARS BatSRBD mutants in a longitudinal study...

Last updated on 2024-02-11T22:41:43+00:00 by LN Anderson West Nile Virus Experiment WCN002 The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the host response to West Nile virus (strain WNV-NY99) wild-type clone 382 and mutant 382-E218A virus infection. Sample data was obtained from mouse (strain C57BL...

Last updated on 2024-02-11T22:41:43+00:00 by LN Anderson West Nile Virus Experiment WCN003 The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the host response to West Nile virus (strain WNV-NY99) wild-type clone 382 and mutant 382-E218A virus infection. Sample data was obtained from mouse (strain C57BL...

Last updated on 2024-02-11T22:41:43+00:00 by LN Anderson West Nile Virus Experiment WDC010 The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the host response to West Nile virus (strain WNV-NY99) wild-type clone 382 and mutant 382-E218A virus infection. Sample data was obtained from primary mouse...

Last updated on 2024-02-11T22:41:43+00:00 by LN Anderson West Nile Virus Experiment WDC011 The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the host response to West Nile virus (strain WNV-NY99) wild-type clone 382 and mutant 382-E218A virus infection. Sample data was obtained from primary mouse...

Last updated on 2024-02-11T22:41:43+00:00 by LN Anderson West Nile Virus Experiment WGCN002 The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the host response to West Nile virus (strain WNV-NY99) wild-type clone 382 and mutant 382-E218A virus infection. Sample data was obtained from mouse (strain...

Systems Virology Lethal Human Virus, SARS-CoV Experiment SCL005 New uploads pending The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the human host response to wild type virus icSARS-CoV Urbani and mutant virus icSARS deltaORF6 (DORF6) infection for subsequent transcriptional and proteomic analysis in...

Systems Virology Lethal Human Virus, SARS-CoV Experiment SCL006 New uploads pending The purpose of this SARS experiment was to obtain samples for transcriptome and proteome analysis in human lung 2B4 cells (clonal derivative of Calu-3 cells) infected with wild type icSARS CoV Urbani and icSARS Bat...

Systems Virology Lethal Human Virus, SARS-CoV Experiment SCL008 New uploads pending The purpose of this SARS experiment was to obtain samples for transcriptome and proteome analysis in human lung 2B4 cells (clonal derivative of Calu-3 cells) infected with either icSARS CoV, icSARS-deltaNSP16 or...

Systems Virology Lethal Human Virus, SARS-CoV Experiment SHAE003 New uploads pending The purpose of this SARS experiment was to obtain samples for transcriptome analysis in Human Airway Epithelial (HAE) cells infected with SARS-CoV, SARS deltaORF6, SARS BatSRBD mutants in a longitudinal study...