Virus Database and Online Inquiry System Based on Natural Vectors

Dong, Rui; Zheng, Hui; Tian, Kun; Yau, Shek-Chung; Mao, Weiguang; Yu, Wenping; Yin, Changchuan; Yu, Chenglong; He, Rong Lucy; Yang, Jie; Yau, Stephen ST

Currently, we have 5 database versions available which are labeled by the downloading time from GenBank: v1, July 27, 2012; v2, November 21, 2012; v3, May 22, 2013; v4, February 20, 2014; and v5, April 14, 2017. The first 2 versions only contain single-segmented viruses. We keep these 5 versions available to users to track the changes of viral information due to corrections, updates, etc. The last 3 versions include both single-segmented and multiple-segmented viruses. The latest version contains 4390 viruses with complete genomes information directly downloaded from NCBI (ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ genomes/Viruses/). Those genomes are obtained from biological experiments rather than predicted by other models, which may introduce many assumptions and errors from the models. We have tested the fifth version to make sure that it is stable with high prediction accuracy.