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VIRALZONE NEWS
ICTV February 2013
The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses has released many updates to the viral taxonomy in 2012: 9 new Families, 3 new Subfamilies, and 34 new Genera. Viralzone taxonomy has been updated accordingly, new taxonomic pages are marked by the logo.

ssDNA in archaea: the pleolipoviridae November 2012

A new family of ssDNA virus infecting archaea has been discovered by Pietila et al in 2009. The family comprises now seven species and is tentatively named Pleolipoviridae. They are the first enveloped ssDNA virus described so far.

E-learning course October 2012

A self-learning module for students has been developed in collaboration with FAO and IAEA about viral phylogenetic tree. The module comprises four chapters: Basics, Building Phylogenetic Trees, Interpreting Trees, and Exercices.

Hepatitis B virus replication cycle September 2012
In partnership with Hoffmann-La Roche, an interactive HBV life cycle resource has been created with 28 new pages linking to 180 publications from PubMed. The entry point to the HBV resource is an illustration depicting the virus replication cycle in a hepatocyte. The cycle has been divided into 27 molecular events that gives access to specific description pages.

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ViralZone current statistics
 April, 2013
470 Virus description pages:
  • 93 Families
  • 370 Genera
  • 9 individual Species

133 Viral molecular biology pages

Linking to:

  • 398 reference strains
  • 16,316 manually reviewed proteins
  • 1,625,623 unreviewed viral proteins

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