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: August 13, 2026
Viral classificationNo. of uniq tax idHost classificationNo. of uniq tax id
I: dsDNA23443 Bacteria 21535
Eukaryota1267
Archaea 199
Viruses 4
Unassigned/Other438
II: ssDNA5196 Bacteria 448
Eukaryota3505
Archaea 12
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other1240
III: dsRNA517 Bacteria 13
Eukaryota464
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other40
IV: ssRNA(+)4048 Bacteria 26
Eukaryota3065
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other957
V: ssRNA(-)1361 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota1170
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other191
VI: ssRNA-RT130 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota129
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other1
VII: dsDNA-RT154 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota154
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other0
Other RNA viruses995 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota78
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other917
Others167 Bacteria 1
Eukaryota75
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other91
RefSeq
GenBank
Viral entries
(No. of sequence accessions)
45458
Source of host information (No. of evidence records)
RefSeq + GenBank UniProt Viral Zone Manual annotation Total
32883 1649 205 17124 45392