ORION-VIRCAT: a tool for mapping ICTV and NCBI taxonomies

Valdivia-Granda, Willy; Larson, Francis

This object-RDBMS stores metadata and virus genomic sequence information collected by the monitor and adapter modules and join them by the NCBI_ICTV _integrator.pl. ORION-VIRCAT genomic catalog reuses the attributes from BioSQL seqfeatures, annotation, taxon and ontology tables and it is implemented in postgreSQL. In addition, we extended the database schema of BioSQL to include virus morphology description, geographical information, clinical characteristics, isolation location and year, culture passage cycle, and controlled vocabularies. To avoid specific vendor operations we have extended the genomic catalog to ORACLE, mySQL and DB2 and data formats.