Marc van Regenmortel Symposium
Marc van Regenmortel being presented with the adjunct professorship of the University of Vienna
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Microbiology Society: The Global Virome
The Microbiology Society annual conference held in Birmingham (UK) on 10-13 April 2018 featured an all-day symposium and half-day workshop on this
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Indian Virological Society: VIROCON 2017 26th National Conference
On 7-9 December 2017, Andrew Davison, ICTV President, attended the 26th National Conference of the Indian Virological Society (IVS) at the kin
News from 2017
November 8, 2017
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.
News from 2016
November 1, 2016
Announcing the ICTV Online (10th) Report on Virus Taxonomy
The 10th ICTV Report will be published as a freely available, online resource, starting in January 2017. Over a three-year cycle, ICTV Study Groups, consisting of leading experts in the field, will update the factual information in the chapters of the 9th Report as well as produce chapters for newly created viral taxa, and provide direct links from the new chapters to the latest taxonomic database.
Metagenomic sequencing and its impact on virus classification
ICTV Workshop on Classification of Viruses from Metagenomic Sequences
Meeting of the ICTV Executive Committee and Study Group Chairs
This meeting was the first ever to bring together the EC and SG chairs to discuss current issues in virus taxonomy.