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The NCBI Virus Resource is looking for partners to help us improve the quality and usability of viral sequence data stored in the public NCBI databases. We are particularly interested in working with researchers and communities to update the annotation of refseq sequence records, to normalize sample descriptors, and to supplement information included in public sequence records with that included in publications and other repositories.
How to Cite Us?
When citing NCBI Virus, please refer to:
| Title | Authors | Read Online |
|---|---|---|
| Virus Variation Resource - improved response to emergent viral outbreaks. | Hatcher EL, Zhdanov SA, Bao Y, Blinkova O, Nawrocki EP, Ostapchuck Y, Schaffer AA, Brister JR. | Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Jan 4;45(D1):D482-D490. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw1065. Epub 2016 Nov 28. |
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Scientific Advisors
We actively collaborate with experts within the field to enhance the quality of available data.
The following list includes people who regularly provide general guidance and assist in specific sequence annotation and classification issues. We welcome advice from other experts, so please contact us with suggestions.
| Name | Field of Expertise | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew J. Davison | Adenoviridae | MRC Virology Unit, Glasgow, Scotland UK |
| Balazs S. Harrach | Adenoviridae | Veterinary Medical Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary |
| Guillaume Blanc | Algal viruses | The National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, France |
| Philippe Colson | Algal viruses, Hepatitis E | Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France |
| David D. Dunigan | Algal viruses, other large DNA viruses | University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE USA |
| Bradley Blitvich | Arboviruses (including Flaviviridae) | Iowa State University, IA |
| David Prangishvili | Archaeal viruses | Istitut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| Charles Fulhorst | Arenaviridae | University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX USA |
| Vijay Dhanasekaran | Astroviridae, Picornaviridae | Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |
| Evelien Adriaenssens | Bacterial and archael viruses | University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK |
| Johannes A. Jehle | Baculoviridae | Julius Kühn-Institut, Germany |
| David A. Theilmann | Baculoviridae | Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food, BC Canada |
| Dennis Rubbenstroth | Bornaviridae | Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany |
| Sergey Morzunov | Bunyaviridae | University of Nevada School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Reno, NV USA |
| Stanislav Sosnovtsev | Caliciviridae | NIH/NIAID, Bethesda, MD USA |
| Alexander V. Karasev | Closteroviridae | University of Idaho, Moscow, ID USA |
| Mart Krupovic | Evolution/computational biology | Istitut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| Carla Kuiken | Flaviviridae | HCV database, Los Alamos, NM USA |
| Vladimir Yamshchikov | Flaviviridae | Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, AL USA |
| Peter Simmonds | Flaviviridae | University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
| F. Murilo Zerbini | Geminivirdae | Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil |
| Vladimir Chulanov | Hepadnaviridae | Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia |
| Andrew J. Davison | Herpesviridae | MRC Virology Unit, Glasgow, Scotland UK |
| V. Gregory Chinchar | Iridoviridae | Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS USA |
| Jens H. Kuhn | Mononegavirales | Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, NIH/NIAID, Frederick, MD USA |
| Ralf Dietzgen | Mononegavirales | The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD Australia |
| Gavin Smith | Orthomyxoviridae | Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore |
| Alison A. McBride | Papillomaviridae | NIAID/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA |
| Sherwood Casjens | Phages | University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, UT USA |
| Simon Roux | Phages | DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA |
| Andrew M. Kropinski | Phages | University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
| Konstantin M. Chumakov | Picornaviridae | Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD USA |
| Nick J. Knowles | Picornaviridae | The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, England UK |
| Michael J. Adams | Plant viruses | England UK |
| Anne-Lise Haenni | Plant viruses | Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France |
| Elliot J. Lefkowitz | Poxviridae | University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL USA |
| Paula Traktman | Poxviridae | Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, SC USA |
| Chris Upton | Poxviridae | University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada |
| Jelle Matthijnssens | Reoviridae, virus discovery | REGA Institute for Medical Research, University in Leuven, Leuvern, Belgium |
| Brian Foley | Retroviridae | HIV Databases, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM USA |
| Roger Ptak | Retroviridae | Southern Research Institute, Frederick, MD USA |
| Andrew Firth | RNA virus translation | University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |
| Alexander E. Gorbalenya | RNA viruses, Nidovirales, Picornaviridae | Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands |
| Arvind Varsani | ssDNA viruses | University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Scott Weaver | Togaviridae | University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX USA |
| Kay Scheets | Tombusviridae | Oklahoma State University, OK USA |
| Ricardo Flores | Viroids | Polytechnical University and CSIC, Valencia, Spain |
| Eric Delwart | Virus discovery | Blood System Research Institute & University of California, San Francisco, CA USA |
| Davin Wang | Virus discovery | Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO USA |
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