Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are common in vertebrate genomes; a typical mammalian genome contains tens to hundreds of thousands of ERV elements. Most ERVs are evolutionarily old and have accumulated multiple mutations, playing important roles in physiology and disease processes. The Human Endogenous Retrovirus Database (hERV) is compiled from the human genome nucleotide sequences obtained from Human Genome Projects, and screens those sequences for hERVs, whilst continuously improving classification and characterization of retroviral families. It provides access to individual reconstructed HERV elements, their sequence, structure and features.

Prefix

erv

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Human Endogenous Retrovirus Database should match this regular expression:
^[A-Za-z0-9\-\_]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

THE1B   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Human Endogenous Retrovirus Database should match this regular expression:
^erv:[A-Za-z0-9\-\_]+$

Example CURIE

erv:THE1B

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 3 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 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 THE1B is used to demonstrate the providers available for Human Endogenous Retrovirus Database. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.