Poxvirus Information Book
- Poxviruses:
- are enveloped viruses
- have a nonsegmented linear dsDNA genome (130,000-375,000 nucleotides long)
- The family Poxviridae has two subfamilies: Chordopoxvirinae, and Entomopoxviridae.
1) Current published research reviews
These are automatically collected from PubMed searches, annotated with tags in the Connotea VBRC Group, and displayed with links to the original and related articles.
2) Medworm
MedWorm is a RSS feed resource collecting updates from over 6,000 authoritative data sources. These feeds contain links to recent papers, news articles, current opinions, and more. The VBRC is utilizing this technology to provide our users with links to the most current online information for each of the virus families we support.
3) Other Internet resources for background information
These links include ICTV, NCBI, other research oriented sites and also more general sites suitable for teaching, students and the layperson.
