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: October 16, 2025
Viral classificationNo. of uniq tax idHost classificationNo. of uniq tax id
I: dsDNA23458 Bacteria 21532
Eukaryota1258
Archaea 198
Viruses 8
Unassigned/Other463
II: ssDNA5091 Bacteria 447
Eukaryota3553
Archaea 12
Viruses 4
Unassigned/Other1080
III: dsRNA459 Bacteria 13
Eukaryota416
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other30
IV: ssRNA(+)3992 Bacteria 26
Eukaryota3021
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other945
V: ssRNA(-)1285 Bacteria 1
Eukaryota1146
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other138
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 2
Unassigned/Other917
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
33051 1681 205 15034 44785