RVR – Resource for Virus Research

Databases and tools developed by Ogata Laboratory for exploration of viral and other microbial genomes

• Virus-Host Database – Database of isolated viruses and their hosts
• ViPTree – Viral taxonomy by proteomic tree
• BLASTN/TBLASTX – Searching aginast environmental viral genomes (please select “Environmental Viral Genome”)
• Environmental viral genome analysis data published by Ogata lab
  • Lescot et al. 2016, Nishimura et al. 2017, Nishimura et al. 2017, Mihara et al. 2018, Megaprimer 2018-2021, Endo et al. 2020, Medusavirus 2020-2023, Meng et al. 2021, Kijima et al. 2021, Kaneko et al. 2021, Zhao et al. 2023, Hikida et al. 2023, Meng et al. 2023, Zhang et al. 2024, Fang et al. 2024, Wu et al. 2024, Kijima et al. 2024, Zhao et al. 2024, Liu et al. 2025, Xia et al. 2026

General tools that may help viral genome analysis

• DigAlign – Building multiple genome alignment
• DeepKOALA – Fast KEGG orthology annotation
• KofamKOALA – HMM-based KEGG orthology annotation
• Taxonomy – Exploration of NCBI taxonomy
• TREE – A user friendly phylogenetic tree builder