International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)

ICTV Master Species List 2017 v1.0

New MSL ((MSL #32, 2017) including all taxa updates since the 2016 release.

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How to write a virus name

Names of viruses (the physical things you work with in the lab or that make you sick) are written differently…

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Indian Virological Society: 26th National Conferen…

Conference Highlight On 7-9 December 2017, Andrew Davison, ICTV President, attended the 26th National…

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ICTV Online (10th) Report

Virus Taxonomy: The Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses

Current News

Marc van Regenmortel to be Honored

Professor Marc van Regenmortel, a past ICTV President and ICTV life member, will end his 20-year stint as Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Virology in August, 2018. To honor Marc’s service and celebrate his scientific achievements, the Medical University of Vienna and Springer, the publisher of Archives of Virology, are organizing a one-day scientific symposium on Friday, June 29th, 2018, at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

The full provisional program as well as details about registration (which is free) and contact emails can be found at http://www.springer.com/biomed/medical+microbiology/journal/705. Marc’s successor as Editor-in-Chief, Tim Skern, is the scientific organizer of the symposium.

New 2018 Taxonomy Proposal Templates now available

New templates for submitting proposals for new taxonomy are now available from https://talk.ictvonline.org/files/taxonomy-proposal-templates/m/templates.To prepare and submit proposals, please download all three files and read the Help file for detailed information on the submission process.

The deadline for this year's proposal submissions to Subcommittee Chairs is Wednesday, June 6.

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.

26th National Conference of the Indian Virological Society

A meeting report provided by Andrew Davison on the 26th IVS meeting is available under the 'Meetings' section of this web site.

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

JUST RELEASED: 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 the taxonomic changes is currently being prepared for publication in Archives of Virology.
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.

ICTV 10th Report Available Online

The ICTV Online (10^th) Report on Virus Taxonomy is now 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.

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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