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: January 23, 2026
Viral classificationNo. of uniq tax idHost classificationNo. of uniq tax id
I: dsDNA23469 Bacteria 21567
Eukaryota1261
Archaea 198
Viruses 4
Unassigned/Other440
II: ssDNA5095 Bacteria 447
Eukaryota3460
Archaea 12
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other1181
III: dsRNA459 Bacteria 13
Eukaryota415
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other31
IV: ssRNA(+)3993 Bacteria 26
Eukaryota3020
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other947
V: ssRNA(-)1285 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota1129
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other156
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 viruses997 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota78
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other919
Others169 Bacteria 4
Eukaryota77
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other88
RefSeq
GenBank
Viral entries
(No. of sequence accessions)
44936
Source of host information (No. of evidence records)
RefSeq + GenBank UniProt Viral Zone Manual annotation Total
32777 1679 205 15927 44857