There are many web sites relevant to the study of viruses. We list here a few selected sites that contain reliable information and that seem to be well-maintained. Most of them also have some relevance to viruses, viroids and satellites of plants.

Virus Taxonomy: the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)

• Home page
• ICTVdb, the database of ICTV:
  • Home site at the Biomedical Informatics Core of the Northeastern Biodefense Center, a Regional Center of Excellence in Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biodefense, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
  • USA mirror at the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda MD, USA.
  • Europe mirror at Rothamsted Research in the UK
  • China mirror at the Microbial Information Network Center for Microbial Resources Academica Sinica in Beijing, China.
• ICTVnet message board where taxonomic proposals are listed for comment

General resources

• DSMZ Plant Virus Collection, Braunschweig, Germany
• Plant Virus GenBank, Korea
• VIPER (Virus particle explorer): 3D structures of isometric viruses
• VIDA: protein database for some of the larger animal viruses
• Virus Diseases: comprehensive list of links to information on human virus diseases from the Karolinska Institute University Library, Stockholm, Sweden

Information on particular groups of viruses

• ds RNA viruses home page at Pirbright, UK
• Gemininet: comprehensive pages from the geminiviridae study group
• Gemini Detective
• The Subviral RNA Database: secondary structure of viroids and satellites
• Rhabdoviruses home page at IAH, UK

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