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: December 12, 2025
Viral classificationNo. of uniq tax idHost classificationNo. of uniq tax id
I: dsDNA23458 Bacteria 21533
Eukaryota1256
Archaea 198
Viruses 4
Unassigned/Other468
II: ssDNA5091 Bacteria 447
Eukaryota3551
Archaea 12
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other1086
III: dsRNA459 Bacteria 13
Eukaryota415
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other31
IV: ssRNA(+)3992 Bacteria 26
Eukaryota3016
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other950
V: ssRNA(-)1285 Bacteria 1
Eukaryota1128
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
32889 1680 205 15725 44792