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It’s a bitter irony that, for those in the global health community contending with viral outbreaks, many of the barriers to mounting an effective response are man-made. Geopolitical and cultural divides that separate us as people can inhibit research efforts and humanitarian aid. Viruses, meanwhile, pay little heed to such arbitrary boundaries; they prey instead on what we all have in common — our shared, human biology.

A global team of researchers has sequenced and made publicly available more than 200 additional genomes from Ebola virus samples to capture the fullest picture yet of how the virus is transmitted and how it has changed over the course of the recent outbreak