Announcement

Consensus statement from the second RdRp Summit published

The second summit's consensus statement covers annotation standards, data sharing, structure-guided phylogenetics and petabyte-scale tools.

The second RdRp Summit was held in Lisbon on 11–12 May 2025. Its consensus statement was published in Peer Community Journal on 28 May 2026.

The statement sets out the challenges the community identified in Lisbon, from standardising annotation and data sharing to structure-guided phylogenetics and petabyte-scale computational tools.

Consensus statement from the second RdRp Summit: towards a unified framework for RNA virus biology. Peer Community Journal 6, e50. https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.727

The first summit's statement (Valencia, 2023) appeared in Frontiers in Virology in 2024. https://doi.org/10.3389/fviro.2024.1371958

Edited by: Shoichi Sakaguchi