NEWS

Endogenous Bornavirus gene in Human genome!
A survey of mammalian genomes has unexpectedly unearthed DNA derived from ssRNA Bornaviruses, leading to speculation about the role of these viruses in causing mutations with evolutionary and medical consequences.
Nature 463, 39-40, 7 January 2010

XMRV

Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) is the first gammaretrovirus known to infect humans.It may be related to prostate cancer () and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ()
TWIV

This Week in Virology is a weekly podcast animated by professors Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier from the Columbia University, USA.
ICTV

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses has released many updates to the viral taxonomy in August 2009: a new Order, 8 new Families, 7 new Subfamilies, and 39 new Genera. Viralzone taxonomy has been updated accordingly, new taxonomic pages are marked by logo

ViralZone is a Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics web-ressource for all viral genus and families, providing general molecular and epidemiological informations, along with virion and genome figures. Each virus or family page gives an easy access to UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot viral protein entries.

The Baltimore index leads to taxonomic listing of virus families and species, linking to viral family pages.

Another way surfing through viewing virus families is to Browse viruses by host where viruses are clustered depending on the infected host. So one can choose to display only Human viruses for example

Viral Family pages
All viral family pages contain a header describing viral specific informations:
-Molecular Biology (Virion and genome picture, gene expression, replication)
-Taxonomic and host informations
-Epidemiology informations (geography, associated diseases, vaccine etc..) UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries
The second part of the viral family pages contains a listing of all UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot protein entries for this viral family. The user can sort entries either by protein name, or by species. Species name is black when all the genome encoded proteins are displayed. When only part of the viral proteins are displayed, the species name is in grey.
DB links provides useful access to related web sites:
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) database
Nucleotide DB links to NCBI taxonomic pages, from which DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank nucleotides entries can be found.
Protein DB links to UniProtKB list of protein entries:
lists all reviewed entries (Swiss-Prot)
lists all unreviewed entries (TrEMBL)