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: June 05, 2026
Viral classificationNo. of uniq tax idHost classificationNo. of uniq tax id
I: dsDNA23437 Bacteria 21535
Eukaryota1267
Archaea 199
Viruses 4
Unassigned/Other432
II: ssDNA5191 Bacteria 448
Eukaryota3522
Archaea 12
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other1215
III: dsRNA510 Bacteria 13
Eukaryota464
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other33
IV: ssRNA(+)4025 Bacteria 26
Eukaryota3048
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other951
V: ssRNA(-)1326 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota1169
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 viruses995 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota78
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other917
Others168 Bacteria 1
Eukaryota76
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other91
RefSeq
GenBank
Viral entries
(No. of sequence accessions)
45310
Source of host information (No. of evidence records)
RefSeq + GenBank UniProt Viral Zone Manual annotation Total
32928 1651 205 16497 45210