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. 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: September 11, 2023
Viral classificationNo. of uniq tax idHost classificationNo. of uniq tax id
dsRNA28 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota28
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other0
dsDNA900 Bacteria 824
Eukaryota32
Archaea 30
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other14
ssRNA48 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota48
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other0
ssDNA848 Bacteria 56
Eukaryota764
Archaea 2
Viruses 36
Unassigned/Other25
Retrovirus0 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other0
Satellite virus and Virophage8 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota8
Archaea 0
Viruses 4
Unassigned/Other0
Viroid3 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota3
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other0
Other10 Bacteria 1
Eukaryota3
Archaea 1
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other2310
RefSeq
GenBank
Viral entries
(No. of sequence accessions)
20898
Source of host information (No. of evidence records)
RefSeq + GenBank UniProt Viral Zone Manual annotation Total
13736 1756 220 9142 20829