U-C-S-C SCIENTISTS HAVE LAUNCHED A EBOLA TOOL. UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS CREATED THE WEBSITE FOR SCIENTISTS WORLD-WIDE TO CONTRIBUTE TO A CURE FOR THE EBOLA VIRUS. RESEARCHERS CAN NOW ACCESS THE GENOME BROWSER AND ITS 5 KNOWN STRAINS OF THE VIRUS, AND ITS VARIOUS MUTATIONS, IN GEOGRAPHIC AND CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. THE TOOL CAME ON-LINE AS THE FIRST REPORTS OF EBOLA CASES IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE BEEN REPORTED.
OPTIONAL: THE EBOLA VIRUS TOOL IS AT genome.ucsc.ed