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: May 01, 2026
Viral classificationNo. of uniq tax idHost classificationNo. of uniq tax id
I: dsDNA23482 Bacteria 21579
Eukaryota1262
Archaea 198
Viruses 4
Unassigned/Other439
II: ssDNA5107 Bacteria 448
Eukaryota3463
Archaea 12
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other1190
III: dsRNA461 Bacteria 13
Eukaryota417
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other31
IV: ssRNA(+)3995 Bacteria 27
Eukaryota3021
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other947
V: ssRNA(-)1287 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota1130
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other157
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 viruses999 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota80
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other919
Others169 Bacteria 4
Eukaryota77
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other88
RefSeq
GenBank
Viral entries
(No. of sequence accessions)
45055
Source of host information (No. of evidence records)
RefSeq + GenBank UniProt Viral Zone Manual annotation Total
32789 1650 205 16397 44967