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.

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Virus-Host DB is provided as a GenomeNet service supported by Supercomputer System of the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University.

Virus-Host DB is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP20HP7003.

Virus-Host DB developers acknowledge the use of the following databases:

Japanese names of viruses and diseases in Virus-Host DB were adapted from the literature and web sites.