The Poxvirus Bioinformatics Resource Center has been established to provide informational and …

• Abstract
• Introduction
• What is the poxvirus bioinformatics resource center?
• Database description
• Genome data acquisition
• Genome annotation and curation
• Website
• Analytical tools
• Availability
• Future plans
• Miscellaneous
• References
• Figures

The PBRC is developed and maintained at the Department of Microbiology,University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Department of Biochemistryand Microbiology, University of Victoria. The PBRC is availableat http://www.poxvirus.org. The PBRC framework has also been used to support developmentof similar bioinformatics resources for other virus families.The Virus Bioinformatics Resource at http://www.virology.cacontains databases and analytical tools to support researchon coronaviruses, herpesviruses and baculoviruses.