Navigating the Landscape: A Comprehensive Review of Current Virus Databases.

ABSTRACT: Viruses are abundant and diverse entities that have important roles in public health, ecology, and agriculture. The identification and surveillance of viruses rely on an understanding of their genome organization, sequences, and replication strategy. Despite technological advancements in sequencing methods, our current understanding of virus diversity remains incomplete, highlighting the need to explore undiscovered viruses. Virus databases play a crucial role in providing access to sequences, annotations and other metadata, and analysis tools for studying viruses. However, there has not been a comprehensive review of virus databases in the last five years. This study aimed to fill this gap by identifying 24 active virus databases and included an extensive evaluation of their content, func

SUBMITTER: Ritsch M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10537806 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature