Sites | Comment | Interface | Specificity |
---|---|---|---|
dsRNA viruses resource | various information about taxonomy, outbreaks and sequences of dsRNA viruses | web(last update 2009) | Reoviridae, Cystoviridae, Birnaviridae, Totiviridae |
Reference Center for bacterial viruses | Collects, conserves and distributes reference phages and information. | web | phages |
ACLAME | database dedicated to the collection and classification of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) | web | phages |
Bioafrica.net | research, software and publications based on HIV, HCV and few other viruses | web | HIV, HCV, HPV |
UCSC Ebola Genome Portal | Collection on data on the 2014 ebola outbreak | web | Ebolavirus |
BROAD institute Dengue virus database | Dengue virus sequences and analysis tools | web | Dengue |
Virology blog | Blog focussed on virus molecular biology | web | All viruses |
NetPicoRNA | Prediction of picornaviridae cleavage sites on amino acid sequences | web | Picornaviridae |
NetCorona | Prediction of Coronavirus 3CL Proteinase cleavage sites on amino acid sequences | web | Coronaviridae |
VirusWorld | Virus capsids pictures and movies | web | All viruses |
Retroviruses | Detailed knowledge on Retrovirus molecular biology | Online book | Retroviridae, HIV |
INTRINSIC STRUCTURE OF VIRUS CAPSIDS | Details on capsid structure and nomenclature | Online book | all viruses |
Iterative Virus Assembler (IVA) | tool to assemble virus genomes from NGS/metagenomics | download | metagenome |
Baculovirus molecular biology | Detailled knowledge on baculovirus molecular biology | Online book | Baculovirus |
Virology.ca | Databases and resources for viral genomics | web | Asfarviridae, Herpesviridae, Poxviridae, Iridoviridae, Baculoviridae |
UniProt | protein sequences of all public viral ORF | web | All viruses |
RNA virus database | Sequence analysis tools and data for RNA viruses | web | RNA viruses |
HIV-1 databases | sequence, vaccine, drug resistance and immunology databases | web | HIV-1 |
IRESite | database of experimentally verified IRES structures | web | Picornaviridae, Flaviviridae, Discistroviridae, Retroviridae, Tombusviridae |
Database of Bat-associated Viruses (DBatVir) | Bat viruses with details about their hosts and location | web | Bat viruses |
European society for virology | Society promoting discussion and collaboration among scientists, organizing a congress every three years | web | All viruses |
American society for virology | Society promoting discussion and collaboration among scientists, organizing an annual congress | web | all viruses |
Plant viruses online | Classification, hosts and symptoms of plant viruses | web | Plant viruses |
Virology history | description og historical developments that led to the determination of the structure and biological functions of viruses | web | Picornaviridae, Influenzavirus, plant viruses |
Giantvirus.org | Resource on mimivirus (last update 2005) | web | Mimivirus, pandoravirus |
Microbewiki: viral bioreaml | student-edited microbiology resource | web | all viruses |
All the virology on the www | links to virology resources on the web | web | all viruses |
ATIVS | Analysis tools for influenza virus surveillance | web | Influenza virus |
AVPdb | Human viruses Resource of experimentally validated antiviral peptides | web | Human viruses |
AVPpred | Antiviralpeptide prediction algorythm | web | all viruses | Base-By-Base | Software package to identify differences between genomes | download | all viruses |
bNAber | Database of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies | web | HIV |
CAPIH | comparative host HIV-1 protein interaction network between human and model animals | web | HIV |
CoVDB | Repository of annotated coronavirus genes/genomes | web | Coronavirus |
DengueNet | For a global surveillance of Dengue fever and Dengue haemorrhagic fever | web | Dengue virus |
Description of plant viruses (DPV) | Information about viruses, viroids and satellites of plants, fungi and protozoa. | web | Plant, funghi, protozoa viruses |
Dr.VIS | Catalogs human disease-related viral integration sites | web | Human viruses |
EpiFlu | Comprehensive collection of Influenza sequences containing associated clinical/epidemiological metadata | Web (login) | Influenza virus |
euHCVdb | Resource computer-annotated sequences, protein sequences/structures and functional analyses tools (now succeeded by ViPR) | web | Hepatitis C virus |
EuResist | For predicting response to anti-HIV therapy | web or download | HIV |
FLAVIdB | Web portal combining antigenic data of flaviviruses and analysis tools | web | Flaviviruses |
Flavitrack | Manually annotated database of flavivirus sequences | Inaccessible, Dec14 | Flaviviruses |
FluGenome | For genotypoing influenza A virus and analyzing reassortment events | web | Influenza virus |
FluTE | Influenza epidemic simulation model | download | Influenza virus |
GATU (Genome Annotation Transfer Utility) | Annotation of viral genomes | web | all viruses |
Geno2pheno | For predicting drug resistance in HIV-1, HBV and HCV | web | HIV-1, HBV and HCV |
GIB-V | Platform for comparative analysis of viral genomes | Inaccessible dec14 | |
GiRaF | Identification of influenza reassortments | download | Influenza virus |
HBVdb | Provides access to computer-annotated sequences as well as generic (BLAST, FASTA, ClustalW) and specialized tools for annotation, genotyping and drug resistance profiling | web | HBV |
HBVPathDB | Pathway information of HBV infection-related reactions | Inaccessible dec14 | HBV |
HBVRegDB | Database for detection of regulatory elements | web | HBV |
HepSEQ | Hosts molecular, clinical and epidemiological information as well as Sequence Matcher, Genotyper and Polymerase Annotator tools for HBV | web | HBV |
HERVd | Repository of human endogenous retroviruses | web | HERV |
HESAS | Database to understand the role of HERVs in the human genome | web | HERV |
HIPdb | Repository of experimentally validated HIV inhibiting peptides | web | HIV |
HIVCD | Tool for contamination screening in HIV sequence laboratory | download | HIV |
HIV Positive Selection Mutation DB | Selection pressure maps of HIV protease and reverse transcriptase | web | HIV |
HIVSIM | For comparing effectiveness of novel HIV therapy regimens | download | HIV |
HIVsirDB | Repository of HIV inhibiting siRNAs | web | HIV |
HIV Systems Biology | Houses Gene Overlapper, Replication Cycle site, GPS-Prot and AIDSVu tools | web | HIV |
HPV-QUEST | Tool for genotyping HPV | web | HPV |
HTLV-1 Molecular Epidemiology DB | For HTLV-1 sequence management and data mining | web | HTLV |
HVDB | Database of hepatitis A/B/C/D/E virus sequences as well as provides a phylogenetic analysis tool | web | HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV, HEV |
ICTV | Taxonomic classification and nomenclature of viruses | web | all viruses |
IPDR | Designing primers/probes for influenza diagnostics | web | Influenza virus |
IRD | Resource of influenza virus host-pathogen interactions as well | web | Influenza virus |
ISED | Catalogs influenza sequence and epitope information of viruses from Asia | web | Influenza virus |
IVDB | Hosts influenza sequence data, Q-filter system as well as BLAST, alignment, phylogenetic and sequence distribution tools | web | Influenza virus |
jpHMM | To analyze recombinations in viruses | web and download | HIV, HBV |
LANL HCV Database | Contains sequence data and immunological epitopes in HCV (now succeeded by ViPR) | web | HCV |
LANL HFV Database | Houses annotated Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses sequences and several analysis tools | web | Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses |
LANL HIV Database2 | Comprehensive resource on HIV sequences, immunological epitopes, drug resistance and vaccine trials | web | HIV |
LearnCoil-VMF | Identifying coiled-coil-like motifs in viral membrane-fusion proteins | web | all viruses |
Metavir | Web server for analysis of viral metagenomes (viromes) | web | metagenome |
NCBI Genotyping Tool | Resource for genotyping of viral sequences | web | HIV, HBV, HTLV, Poliovirus |
NCBI HIV-1, Human Interaction Database | Catalogs all interactions between HIV-1 and human proteins | web | HIV |
NCBI Influenza Resource | Influenza virus standardized annotation, metadata based sequence retrieval and analysis tools | web | Influenza virus |
NCBI Viral Genome Resource | Catalogue of all viral genomes with their proteins and references for all viral species. Contains more that 70,000 genomes | web | all viruses |
NCBI Virus Variation Resource | Ebolavirus, MERS coronavirus, Dengue, West Nile-standardized annotation, metadata based sequence retrieval and analysis tools | web | Ebolavirus, MERS coronavirus, Dengue, West Nile virus |
OpenFluDB | Isolate-centric database for influenza virus (contains information about virus type, host and collection date/place) | web | Influenza virus |
Paparazzi | Perl script to reconstruct entire viral genome from virus-derived siRNAs | Inaccessible, Fev15 | NGS |
PaVE | Hosts annotated papillomavirus genomes and protein sequence/structures | web | HPV |
PBRC | Comprehensive Poxviridae informational and analytical resource (now merged into ViPR) | web | Poxviridae |
PHACCS | To assess the diversity of uncultured/environmental viral communities | download | metagenome |
PhEVER | Houses evolutionary and phylogenetic information to analyze the nature of virus-virus and virus-host lateral gene transfers | web | all viruses |
phiSITE | Database of gene regulation in bacteriophages | web | phages |
PhyloType | To analyze large phylogenies | web and download | Phylogeny |
PIRSpred | For HIV-1 protein-inhibitor resistance/susceptibility prediction | web | HIV |
PrimerHunter | Primer designing tool for virus subtyping | web and download | all viruses |
PriSM | Tool to select optimal primers for amplification of viral genomes | web | all viruses |
RetroTector | Detection of retroviral sequences in vertebrate genomes | web | Retroviridae |
RNA Virus Database | Devoted to RNA viruses | web | RNA viruses |
RotaC | Genotyping tool for group A rotaviruses | web | Rotavirus |
SCUEAL | Prediction of HIV-1 subtypes | web | HIV |
SeqMap 2.0 | Identifying integration sites from LM-PCR, LAM-PCR and nrLAM-PCR analysis | web | Integrated virus |
siVirus | Antiviral siRNA design software | web | HIV, SARS, Influenza, HCV |
SQUAT | Examining the quality of HIV-1 PR/RT sequences | download | HIV |
SSE | Nucleotide and amino acid sequence analysis platform | download | all viruses |
Stanford HIV Drug Resistance DB | Contains genotype-treatment, genotype-phenotype and genotype-outcome correlation data | web | HIV |
STAR | Subtyping tool for HIV-1 and HBV | web | HIV, HBV |
Subviral RNA Database | For research/analysis of viroids, satellite RNAs, satellites viruses and human hepatitis delta virus | web | RNA viruses |
SugarBind | Pathogen glucide/carbohydrate-binding database | web | |
VaZyMolO | BLAST tool for defining/classifying viral protein modules | web | all viruses |
VBRC | Viral resource of informational and analytical tools (now merged into ViPR) | web | Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, Flaviridae, Filoviridae, Paramyxoviridae, Poxviridae, Togaviridae |
vFitness | To estimate HIV-1 fitness (replication rate) | web | HIV |
VGO | Annotation of complete viral genomes especially large poxviruses | web | poxviridae |
VIDA | Organizes homologous protein families from animal virus genomes | web | Arteriviridae, Poxviridae, Coronaviridae, Herpesviridae, Papillomaviridae |
VIGOR | Gene prediction program | web | RNA viruses |
VIPERdb | Database for icosahedral virus capsid structures | web | All viruses |
ViPR | Integrated repository of data (sequences, protein structures, epitopes, clinical/surveillance metadata) and analysis tools (BLAST, alignment, phylogeny) for multiple virus families | web | Caliciviridae, Coronaviridae, Flaviviridae, Hepeviridae, Picornaviridae, Togaviridae, Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, Filoviridae, Paramyxoviridae, Rhabdoviridae, Reoviridae, Herpesviridae, Poxviridae |
VIPR | For detecting recombinant and non-recombinant viruses hybridized to diagnostic microarray | download | all viruses |
Viral IRES Prediction System (VIPS) | Prediction of viral IRESs | web | all viruses |
ViralFusionSeq | To discover integration events by combining soft-clipping information, read-pair analysis and targeted de novo assembly | download | all viruses |
ViralZone | Fact sheets on all known virus families/genera with sequence data | web | all viruses |
VIRAPOPS | Forward simulator to model specific RNA virus functions | download | RNA virus |
ViReMa | Algorithm for detection of recombination junctions in viral genomes | download | all viruses |
VirHostNet | Resource of virus-host interaction networks coupled to their functional annotation | web | all viruses |
Vir-Mir db | Catalogs potential viral miRNA hairpins and allows prediction of viral miRNA target genes | web | all viruses |
ViroBLAST | Extends utility of BLAST to query against multiple databases and user-customized datasets | web and download | all viruses |
VirOligo | Repository of virus-specific oligonucleotides | web | all viruses |
VIROME | Pipeline for classification of viral metagenomic sequences | web | metagenome |
viRome | R package for analysis of viral small RNA sequence datasets | download | all viruses |
VIRsiRNAdb | Curated database of siRNA/shRNA targeting 42 important human viruses | web | Human viruses |
VIRsiRNApred | Viral siRNA efficacy prediction tool | web | all viruses |
VirusFinder | Software for detecting integration sites by blending SVdetect with CREST | download | NGS |
Virus-Genotyping Tools | High-throughput genotyping of recombinant and nonrecombinant viruses | web | HIV, HTLV, HBV, HCV, KSHV, HPV |
VirusHunter | Pipeline for detection of novel/known viruses from various specimens | download | metagenome |
VirusMINT | Hosts interactions between viral and human proteins | web | |
VirusSeq | For finding integration events using discordant read-pair information | download | all viruses |
Visitor | Perl script for analysis of viral siRNA datasets from Illumina sequencing platform | download | Drosophila viruses |
ViTa | Houses known host/viral miRNAs and known/putative host miRNA targets | web | all viruses |
VMGAP | Pipeline for functional annotation of metagenomic data | method | metagenome |
ZCURVE_V | Gene-finding tool for viral genomes | web and download | all viruses |
Paleovirology | This website aims to provide a stable repository for the endogenous viruses, and provides paleovirus reference sequences for retroviruses | web | all endogenous viruses |
ViRBase | visualization of virus-host ncRNA-associated interactions and interaction networks in viral infection | web | all viruses |
ViRAD | Virus (re-)annotation database; adds newly identified ORFs to virus sequences | web | all viruses |
VirAmp | fast virus genome assembly pipeline designed for extremely high coverage NGS data | web | all viruses |
PaVE | Papillomavirus Episteme: resource with reference sequences, annotation and analysis tools | web | Papillomaviruses |
VirusDetect | An automated pipeline for efficient virus discovery using deep sequencing of small RNAs. | web | Plant viruses |
ScienceofHIV | Animation showing some key steps of HIV life cycle | Web | HIV |
Virus orthologous groups VOGDB | Orthologous groups from RefSeq viral genomes | Web | all viruses |
Virus host database | data represented in the form of pairs of NCBI taxonomy IDs for viruses and their hosts | Web | all viruses |
Bacteriophage genomes | Table of >9000 Complete Bacteriophage genomes extracted from Genbank | Web | phages |
Genome detective tool | The Virus tool assigns taxonomic names to sequences from eukaryotic viruses and phages. | Web | all viruses, NGS, Metagenomics |
Sources: -Unraveling the Web of Viroinformatics: Computational Tools and Databases in Virus Research For further details and to compare/select the most suitable tools to carry out a desired task refer to the aforementioned paper. -2014 NAR Database Summary Paper #html