ViralZone: a knowledge resource to understand virus diversity

By C. Hulo, Edouard De Castro, P. Masson, L. Bougueleret, Amos Bairoch, Ioannis Xenarios, P. L. Mercier. Nucleic Acids Res., 2010

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The molecular diversity of viruses complicates the interpretation of viral genomic and proteomic data. To make sense of viral gene functions, investigators must be familiar with the virus host range, replication cycle and virion structure. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive resource bridging together textbook knowledge with genomic and proteomic sequences. ViralZone web resource (www.expasy.org/viralzone/) provides fact sheets on all known virus families/genera with easy access to sequence data. A selection of reference strains (RefStrain) provides annotated standards to circumvent the exponential increase of virus sequences. Moreover ViralZone offers a complete set of detailed and accurate virion pictures.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Ecology, Plant Science

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• Exploring autophagy with Gene Ontology (2016, background): “Lastly, the ViralZone [49] resource includes details of autophagic processes from a”
• Ongoing and future developments at the Universal Protein Resource (2010, methodology): “The selection and definition of reference strain proteomes in UniProtKB has already begun for viruses (11), where 355 reference strains have been selected in accordance with RefSeq.”