ViPR: an open bioinformatics database and analysis resource for virology research

Pickett, Brett E.; Sadat, Eva L.; Zhang, Yun; Noronha, Jyothi M.; Squires, R. Burke; Hunt, Victoria; Liu, Mengya; Kumar, Sanjeev; Zaremba, Sam; Gu, Zhiping; Zhou, Liwei; Larson, Christopher N.; Dietrich, Jonathan; Klem, Edward B.; Scheuermann, Richard H.

Search and analysis capabilities. To access ViPR data as well as analytical and visualization tools, the user begins by selecting a virus family on the home page (Supplementary Figure S2) . ViPR has been designed in this way to manage the unique genomic structural and data type characteristics associated with different virus families. Queries for virus strains can be constructed to include genus, species, geographical and/or temporal points of isolation, virus host, clinical data (where available), etc. Alternatively, simple keyword searches and more advanced searches can be performed to retrieve the desired information. Virus genomes that match the query are displayed in a summary table on the Genome Search Results page (Supplementary Figure S3 ). Selecting any of the strains in the list will bring up the corresponding Strain Details page as described above.