In an article on Oct. 05 2011, Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lengauer talks about a rapid alert system to predict dangerous and highly infective mutations of influenza viruses. In addition, he talks about the international research project GISAID as well as geno2pheno, a software developed at the Max-Planck-Institue for Computer Science, Saarbrücken, that helps to optimize the medical treatment of HIV patients.