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: July 08, 2025
Viral classificationNo. of uniq tax idHost classificationNo. of uniq tax id
I: dsDNA22869 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 6
Unassigned/Other22406
II: ssDNA4802 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 2
Unassigned/Other4034
III: dsRNA435 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other382
IV: ssRNA(+)3984 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other3584
V: ssRNA(-)1279 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other1025
VI: ssRNA-RT135 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other122
VII: dsDNA-RT154 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other147
Other RNA viruses1020 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 2
Unassigned/Other1010
Others464 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota0
Archaea 0
Viruses 2
Unassigned/Other434
RefSeq
GenBank
Viral entries
(No. of sequence accessions)
43000
Source of host information (No. of evidence records)
RefSeq + GenBank UniProt Viral Zone Manual annotation Total
31072 1725 217 13875 42283