NCBI Viral Genomes Resource

Abstract

Recent technological innovations have ignited an ex-plosion in virus genome sequencing that promises to fundamentally alter our understanding of viral bi-ology and profoundly impact public health policy. Yet, any potential benefits from the billowing cloud of next generation sequence data hinge upon well implemented reference resources that facilitate the identification of sequences, aid in the assembly of sequence reads and provide reference annotation sources. The NCBI Viral Genomes Resource is a reference resource designed to bring order to this sequence shockwave and improve usability of vi-ral sequence data. The resource can be accessed a