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 31, 2025
Viral classificationNo. of uniq tax idHost classificationNo. of uniq tax id
I: dsDNA22869 Bacteria 20812
Eukaryota1189
Archaea 193
Viruses 6
Unassigned/Other329
II: ssDNA4802 Bacteria 431
Eukaryota2781
Archaea 12
Viruses 2
Unassigned/Other934
III: dsRNA435 Bacteria 12
Eukaryota383
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other9
IV: ssRNA(+)3984 Bacteria 26
Eukaryota2839
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other935
V: ssRNA(-)1279 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota1077
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other127
VI: ssRNA-RT135 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota126
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other1
VII: dsDNA-RT154 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota151
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other0
Other RNA viruses1020 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota61
Archaea 0
Viruses 2
Unassigned/Other954
Others464 Bacteria 8
Eukaryota258
Archaea 0
Viruses 2
Unassigned/Other183
RefSeq
GenBank
Viral entries
(No. of sequence accessions)
42999
Source of host information (No. of evidence records)
RefSeq + GenBank UniProt Viral Zone Manual annotation Total
30630 1725 217 14357 42282