Welcome to the launch of our new show dedicated to covering breaking COVID-19 research!

Hosted by Dr. Nicholas Tatonetti of Columbia University, we aim to provide some assistance to informaticians, data scientists, and even the general public who are interested in this global pandemic, and the scientific fight launched to counter it. The show is designed to highlight two to three recent scientific papers that have caught the eye of the research team scanning COVID-19 papers and identifying research initiatives where people can volunteer their skills, all in a 12-15-minute package!

This week's papers [timestamps]:

1) [4:11] Chan et al, A familial cluster of pneumonia associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus indicating person-to-person transmission: a study of a family cluster, The Lancet, Feb. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20... 2) [5:46] Li et al, Substantial undocumented infection facilitates the rapid dissemination of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2), Science, Mar. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb3221 3) [8:35] Zhang et al, Crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 main protease provides a basis for design of improved α-ketoamide inhibitors, Science, Mar. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb3405

Project highlight: [15:09] CovidWatcher - https://covidwatcher.dbmi.columbia.edu

This week's slides: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Edl...

Additional Projects to contribute to (pdf with links): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hv8C...

The C19 Weekly is produced in collaboration with the American Medical Informatics Association (amia.org) and the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University Medical Center.

Host: Nicholas Tatonetti PhD Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics Department of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Systems Biology, & Department of Medicine Columbia University

Executive Producer: Scott McGrath PhD Clinical Informatics Education Specialist Providence Health & Services AMIA Student Working Group Chair

Researcher for this episode: Zainab Al-Taie, PhD Student, University of Missouri Mary Lauren Benton, PhD Candidate, Vanderbilt University Pritika Dasupta, PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh Jenna Kefeli, PhD Candidate, Columbia University Lu He, PhD Student, University of California Olha Kholod, PhD Student, University of Missouri-Columbia Tamara G. R. Macieira, PhD, Postdoctoal Associate, University of Florida Malvika Pillai, PhD Student, UNC Chapel Hill Cori Thompson, MSU, GCert-HTS Candidate, University of Victoria Andrew Miller, PhD Student, University of Utah Martin Nwadiugwu, Masters Student, University of Nebraska at Omaha Joseph D. Romano, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania Rafeek Yusuf, MD MS, PhD Candidate, UT Health Kate Fultz Holis, MS MBI, Research Associate, OHSU