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: April 25, 2025
Viral classificationNo. of uniq tax idHost classificationNo. of uniq tax id
I: dsDNA21355 Bacteria 19413
Eukaryota1134
Archaea 176
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other305
II: ssDNA5079 Bacteria 427
Eukaryota2992
Archaea 10
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other819
III: dsRNA460 Bacteria 6
Eukaryota366
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other30
IV: ssRNA(+)3916 Bacteria 25
Eukaryota2591
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other918
V: ssRNA(-)1193 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota822
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other130
VI: ssRNA-RT135 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota121
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other0
VII: dsDNA-RT153 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota144
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other0
Other RNA viruses1166 Bacteria 1
Eukaryota174
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other961
Others166 Bacteria 5
Eukaryota77
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other81
RefSeq
GenBank
Viral entries
(No. of sequence accessions)
42086
Source of host information (No. of evidence records)
RefSeq + GenBank UniProt Viral Zone Manual annotation Total
30528 1751 217 13313 41228