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. 2021 Sep 9;37(17):2798-2801.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab070.

Viral Host Range database, an online tool for recording, analyzing and disseminating virus-host interactions

Quentin Lamy-Besnier  1   2 , Bryan Brancotte  3 , Hervé Ménager  3 , Laurent Debarbieux  1
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Viral Host Range database, an online tool for recording, analyzing and disseminating virus-host interactions

Quentin Lamy-Besnier et al. Bioinformatics. .

Abstract

Motivation: Viruses are ubiquitous in the living world, and their ability to infect more than one host defines their host range. However, information about which virus infects which host, and about which host is infected by which virus, is not readily available.

Results: We developed a web-based tool called the Viral Host Range database to record, analyze and disseminate experimental host range data for viruses infecting archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes.

Availability and implementation: The ViralHostRangeDB application is available from https://viralhostrangedb.pasteur.cloud. Its source code is freely available from the Gitlab instance of Institut Pasteur (https://gitlab.pasteur.fr/hub/viralhostrangedb).

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Fig. 1.
Diagram presenting the main functionalities of the Viral Host Range database. The top panel (Search) introduces the search tool and links to subsequent information. The bottom panel (Contribute) presents the main steps that contributors must achieve to record new data. Shown in the middle panel (Explore) is an example of results obtained from dataset comparison, using the datasets selected from the searched results displayed in the top panel and the newly contributed data displayed in the bottom panel (red arrows). Main tools and options to select, rank and display data are also indicated
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