Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource
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| Website | www.viprbrc.org |
The Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource (ViPR) [1] [2] is an integrative and comprehensive publicly available database and analysis resource to search, analyze, visualize, save and share data for viral pathogens in the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Category A-C Priority Pathogen lists for biodefense research, and other viral pathogens causing emerging/reemerging infectious diseases. ViPR is one of the five Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRC) funded by NIAID, a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Virus families covered in ViPR
The ViPR database includes genomes from these viral families: Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, Caliciviridae, Coronaviridae, Filoviridae, Flaviviridae, Hepeviridae, Herpesviridae, Paramyxoviridae, Picornaviridae, Poxviridae, Reoviridae, Rhabdoviridae, and Togaviridae
Data types in ViPR
- Genomes
- Genome annotations
- Genes & proteins
- Immune epitopes
- Sequence Features
- 3D protein structure
- Clinical and surveillance data
- Computationally-derived data
- Host-pathogen interactions (coming soon)
Analysis and visualization tools in ViPR
- BLAST sequence similarity search
- Multiple sequence alignment
- Phylogenetic tree construction
- 3D protein structures with Sequence Feature or epitope highlights
- Sequence Feature Variant Type (SFVT) analysis
- Metadata-driven comparative analysis
- Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis
- Genome annotation
- Personal Workbench to save and share data and analysis
References
External links
- Official website
- Bioinformatics Resource Centers The NIAID page describing the goals and activities of the BRCs