Virus-Host DB organizes data about the relationships between viruses and their hosts, represented in the form of pairs of NCBI taxonomy IDs for viruses and their hosts. Virus-Host DB covers viruses with complete genomes stored in 1) NCBI/RefSeq and 2) GenBank whose accession numbers are listed in EBI Genomes or INPHARED. The host information is collected from RefSeq, GenBank (in free text format), UniProt, ViralZone, and manually curated with additional information obtained by literature surveys.

Selected viral families
Adenoviridae Papillomaviridae Herpesviridae
Baculoviridae Poxviridae Parvoviridae
Retroviridae Reoviridae Picornaviridae
Flaviviridae Caliciviridae Coronaviridae
Bunyaviridae Orthomyxoviridae Paramyxoviridae
Annotated virusesLast Update: June 12, 2025
Viral classificationNo. of uniq tax idHost classificationNo. of uniq tax id
I: dsDNA22843 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 6
Unassigned/Other22386
II: ssDNA5083 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 4
Unassigned/Other4289
III: dsRNA460 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other401
IV: ssRNA(+)3926 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other3534
V: ssRNA(-)1196 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other955
VI: ssRNA-RT135 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other122
VII: dsDNA-RT153 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other146
Other RNA viruses1166 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 2
Unassigned/Other1134
Others166 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other163
RefSeq
GenBank
Viral entries
(No. of sequence accessions)
42999
Source of host information (No. of evidence records)
RefSeq + GenBank UniProt Viral Zone Manual annotation Total
31071 1725 217 13856 42282