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: November 13, 2026
Viral classificationNo. of uniq tax idHost classificationNo. of uniq tax id
I: dsDNA23457 Bacteria 21507
Eukaryota1272
Archaea 199
Viruses 4
Unassigned/Other475
II: ssDNA5304 Bacteria 448
Eukaryota3469
Archaea 12
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other1386
III: dsRNA526 Bacteria 13
Eukaryota457
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other56
IV: ssRNA(+)4091 Bacteria 27
Eukaryota2971
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other1095
V: ssRNA(-)1417 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota1142
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other276
VI: ssRNA-RT130 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota129
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other1
VII: dsDNA-RT158 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota155
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other3
Other RNA viruses1022 Bacteria 0
Eukaryota78
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other944
Others164 Bacteria 1
Eukaryota75
Archaea 0
Viruses 0
Unassigned/Other88
RefSeq
GenBank
Viral entries
(No. of sequence accessions)
45466
Source of host information (No. of evidence records)
RefSeq + GenBank UniProt Viral Zone Manual annotation Total
32508 1649 205 17717 45413