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. The host information is collected from RefSeq, GenBank (in free text format), UniProt, ViralZone, and manually curated with additional information obtained by literature surveys.

This resource is a provider. This means that while it may have its own prefix, it actually reuses the identifiers provided by the ncbitaxon prefix. For all use cases, you should use ncbitaxon instead of virushostdb.

Prefix

virushostdb

Keywords

virus

Links

Homepage

Contact

Hiroyuki Ogata   0000-0001-6594-377X

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

438782   Resolve

Example CURIE

virushostdb:438782

Publications

2016 Linking Virus Genomes with Host Taxonomy

Reviewer

Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Provides

NCBITaxon

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 2 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 438782 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Virus-HostDB. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.