We provide here the accession numbers used by EMBL and Genbank databases for all the sequences of viruses, satellites and viroids infecting plants, fungi and protozoa. These have been checked to ensure that, as far as possible, they are allocated here to their correct name and the list is updated at least once every 2 months. This version was correct to 17 May 2008. The names follow the latest decisions of the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) as far as possible.
Using files developed for the DPV CD-ROM, all those sequences encoding one or more gene, or which are complete in the case of non-coding satellites and viroids, have been incorporated into a sequence feature database (DPVWeb) together with verified annotations for the open reading frames and other major features. To assist comparisons with related viruses, there are also representative sequences for every completely sequenced animal virus with an RNA or ssDNA genome. Sequence features (genes etc.) can be selected and downloaded in FASTA format. This can be done either by following the links to Featured Sequences from the Notes pages or by using software that we have written to select and analyse sequences from this database is described on the Analysis page.
We also plan to develop software that will display all these sequences in an interactive genome map (similar to DPVMap of the CD-ROM version).