Infectious disease & surveillance
NCBI Virus & BV-BRC
Pathogen sequence & bioinformatics
"Open pathogen-sequence archives and integrative bioinformatics."
About the resource
NCBI Virus is the curated viral-sequence portal layered over GenBank — taxonomy-aware, with extensive metadata fields, automated host and country detection, and direct integration with NCBI's BLAST and analysis tools. It hosts a fully open alternative to GISAID for SARS-CoV-2 (SRA + GenBank) used by many international labs.
BV-BRC — the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center — is the NIAID-funded successor to the merged PATRIC, IRD and ViPR programs. It provides genomes, annotations, transcriptomics, proteomics, host-response data, antimicrobial-resistance surveillance and a sizeable analysis service for bacterial and viral pathogens of human importance.
What you'd use it for
- 01Pull viral sequences for a pathogen via fully open NCBI Virus
- 02Run AMR and pangenome analysis in BV-BRC workspaces
- 03Cross-reference host-response transcriptomics with pathogen genomics
- 04Use as an open mirror complement to GISAID for SARS-CoV-2
How you access it
Web UIFTP downloadsBV-BRC analysis service workspacesBLAST