Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lefkowitz, Elliot J
• Dempsey, Donald M
• Hendrickson, Robert Curtis
• Orton, Richard J
• Siddell, Stuart G
• Smith, Donald B

Titel

Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)

Ist Teil von

• Nucleic acids research, 2018-01, Vol.46 (D1), p.D708

Ort / Verlag

England

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is charged with the task of developing, refining, and maintaining a universal virus taxonomy. This task encompasses the classification of virus species and higher-level taxa according to the genetic and biological properties of their members; naming virus taxa; maintaining a database detailing the currently approved taxonomy; and providing the database, supporting proposals, and other virus-related information from an open-access, public web site. The ICTV web site (http://ictv.global) provides access to the current taxonomy database in online and downloadable formats, and maintains a complete history of virus taxa back to the first release in 1971. The ICTV has also published the ICTV Report on Virus Taxonomy starting in 1971. This Report provides a comprehensive description of all virus taxa covering virus structure, genome structure, biology and phylogenetics. The ninth ICTV report, published in 2012, is available as an open-access online publication from the ICTV web site. The current, 10th report (http://ictv.global/report/), is being published online, and is replacing the previous hard-copy edition with a completely open access, continuously updated publication. No other database or resource exists that provides such a comprehensive, fully annotated compendium of information on virus taxa and taxonomy.