ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2025
VITALdb: to select the best viroinformatics tools for a desired virus or application.
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Abstract
The recent pandemics of viral diseases, COVID-19/mpox (humans) and lumpy skin disease (cattle), have kept us glued to viral research. These pandemics along with the recent human metapneumovirus outbreak have exposed the urgency for early diagnosis of viral infections, vaccine development, and discovery of novel antiviral drugs and therapeutics. To support this, there is an armamentarium of virus-specific computational tools that are currently available. VITALdb (VIroinformatics Tools and ALgorithms database) is a resource of ~360 viroinformatics tools encompassing all major viruses (SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus, human immunodeficiency virus, papillomavirus, herpes simplex virus, hepatitis virus, dengue virus, Ebola virus, Zika virus, etc.) and several diverse applications [structural and functional annotation, antiviral peptides development, subspecies characterization, recognition of viral recombination, inhibitors identification, phylogenetic analysis, virus-host prediction, viral metagenomics, detection of mutation(s), primer designing, etc.]. Resources, tools, and other utilities mentioned in this article will not only facilitate further developments in the realm of viroinformatics but also provide tremendous fillip to translate fundamental knowledge into applied research. Most importantly, VITALdb is an inevitable tool for selecting the best tool(s) to carry out a desired task and hence will prove to be a vital database (VITALdb) for the scientific community. Database URL: https://compbio.iitr.ac.in/vitaldb.
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