International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)

The ICTV Report

Online (10th) Report on Virus Taxonomy: The Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses
Master Species List

Current Master Species List 2017 v1.0
Orthography

How to write a virus name
The Global Virome

The Global Virome – the Scope, Causes and Consequences of Viral Diversity The Microbiology Society…

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van Regenmortel Symposium

Brief report from the Symposium to honour Marc van Regenmortel Vienna, 29 th June, 2018. Marc van…

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Current News

Keeping up with virus taxonomy

The blog Microbe Post, from the Microbiology Society is now highlighting ICTV Profiles published in the Journal of General Virology.

van Regenmortel Honored

Professor Marc van Regenmortel, a past ICTV President and ICTV life member was honored with a symposium held on the 29th of June, 2018 in Vienna, Austria. A report from the Symposium is available in the Meetings section of the ICTV web site.

The Global Virome – the Scope, Causes and Consequences of Viral Diversity

The Microbiology Society annual conference held in Birmingham (UK) on 10-13 April 2018 featured an all-day symposium and half-day workshop on the global virome. A report from the conference is available in the Meetings section of the ICTV web site.

Why virus taxonomy is important

The article, "Why virus taxonomy is important", published in Microbiology Today by Stuart Siddell, ICTV Vice President, discusses the importance of virus taxonomy and its role in helping to define the evolutionary relationships between viruses and understand the consequences of virus diversity.

ICTV in Nucleic Acids Research

An article appearing in the Nucleic Acids Research 2018 Database issue, "Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)" describes the ICTV database and the web-based tools available to query that database: Lefkowitz EJ, Dempsey DM, Hendrickson RC, Orton RJ, Siddell SG, Smith DB. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Oct 13. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx932. PubMed PMID: 29040670.

The Virus Metadata Resource

The Virus Metadata Resource (VMR) is a downloadable spreadsheet that provides information on exemplar viruses for each species. This information includes GenBank and RefSeq accession numbers for exemplar viruses and isolate and common names for viruses belonging to a species.

Past News

For previous news announcements, please see https://talk.ictvonline.org/information/w/news

Fifty Years of Virus Taxonomy

Navigating Menus

Information: Members, FAQs, Code and Statutes, History, News, Newsletters, VDN articles.
Taxonomy: Current and historical ICTV taxonomic databases
Files: Taxonomy Proposals, Master Species Lists, Proposal templates, and other ICTV-related files.
Discussions: Discussions about the ICTV and virus taxonomy.
Study Groups: Information on virus families provided by ICTV Study Groups.
Meetings: Reports from ICTV-sponsored meetings addressing current problems in virus taxonomy.
ICTV Reports: Online versions of the current 10th and previous 9th Reports on Virus Taxonomy.

Items of Interest

ICTV Report Available Online

The ICTV Report on Virus Taxonomy (also known as the Online (10th) Report) is available in a freely accessible format from this web site at http://ictv.global/report. Over a three-year cycle, ICTV Study Groups will update the information in the chapters of the 9th Report as well as produce chapters for newly created virus taxa.

Journal of General Virology:
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles

Summaries of the Online Report chapters are published in the Journal of General Virology, ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles section. These summaries are linked to the full Online Report chapters on the ICTV website and are indexed in PubMed.

ICTV 2017 Taxonomy

The 2017 ICTV taxonomy (released March 12, 2018) is now available online at http://ictvonline.org/virusTaxonomy.asp.

The new ICTV Master Species List for 2017 is available for download as an Excel Spreadsheet.
A reference that can be used to cite these taxonomic proposals has been published in Archives of Virology:
- Changes to taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2018). Arch Virol. 2018 May 12. doi: 10.1007/s00705-018-3847-1. PubMed PMID: 29754305.
Official taxonomy proposals representing all of the taxonomic changes approved by the ICTV since the publication of the ICTV 8th Report can be found here: http://talk.ictvonline.org/media/22/default.aspx/.
All approved proposals can be downloaded together as a .zip file from this link.

How to write a virus name

A document detailing the ICTV's recommendation for how to write a virus name is available here.

Submitting Taxonomic Proposals

ICTV welcomes taxonomic proposals from any interested individual. To submit a proposal, download and complete the relevant parts of the taxonomic template (available at http://talk.ictvonline.org/files/folders/templates/default.aspx) and e-mail it to the appropriate subcommittee chair (Animal DNA Viruses and Retroviruses, Animal dsRNA and ssRNA- Viruses, Animal ssRNA+ Viruses, Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses, Fungal and Protist Viruses, or Plant viruses). Names and e-mail addresses can be found at http://www.ictvonline.org/executiveCommittee.asp.

Help!

For questions or help, send an email to info@ictvonline.org

Recent Activity

Support

ICTV gratefully acknowledges financial support from the American Society for Virology, Microbiology Society, the Virology Division of IUMS, and Wellcome. ICTV also very gratefully acknowledges the support it receives from all its Executive Committee members, Study Group members and National Representatives who volunteer a huge amount of their time and financial support to ensure that ICTV continues to function for the good of virology. We would also like to thank Donald Dempsey and Curtis Hendrickson from the University of Alabama at Birmingham for their work on the development of the web site and taxonomy database.

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