Discover ViralZone (2 of 2)
Channel: SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Date: 26/01/2023

ViralZone (https://viralzone.expasy.org/) is a SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics web resource for all viral genera and families. It provides molecular biology information on all kind of viruses, and bridges knowledge to virus or sequence databases. For each virus or family page, ViralZone provides easy access to the corresponding UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot (https://www.uniprot.org/) and GenBank viral protein entries. It also contains virion and genome images.  

This video introducing the ViralZone resource, a knowledge resource to understand virus diversity, focuses on the challenges that new epidemics pose (COVID, monkeypox) and virus specific resources (SARS-CoV-2, monkeypox, HIV). The video was recorded live during the SIB course streamed on January 18, 2023. 

Target audience: This course is addressed to students, postdocs, and researchers, from any scientific environment (academia, facilities, companies, etc.) interested in viral data. It should also be of interest to any person looking for virion and viral genome images for use in teaching or publications. 

Speaker: Philippe Le Mercier, ViralZone Resource Manager, Swiss-Prot group (https://www.sib.swiss/research-infrastructure/competence-centers/swiss-prot) 

Any question about this talk? Contact ViralZone  (https://web.expasy.org/contact.html?subject=Viralzone)