Welcome to the Poxvirus Bioinformatics Resource Center. This Center has been established to provide resources to the scientific community for basic research and to facilitate the development of novel antiviral therapies and vaccines against human orthopoxvirus infections as well as approaches for environmental detection of virions and the rapid diagnosis of disease.

The Center provides a relational database that supports data storage of poxvirus genomic sequences, and annotation and analysis of poxvirus ORF; web-based data mining and sequence analysis tools; software for analysis of complete genomes; a poxvirus literature resource; a repository of poxvirus species and strains (at ATCC); and a discussion forum.

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The Poxvirus Bioinformatics Resource Center web site, like nearly all sites on the internet, maintains access logs of the site that contain information tracking the total number of visitors to our site, the number of visitors to each page of our site, and the visitor’s domain names and computer IP numbers.