bv-brc

is a Data Source.

The Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC) is a comprehensive resource for bacterial and viral infectious disease research that combines the data, technology, and extensive user communities from two long-running centers - PATRIC (the bacterial system) and IRD/ViPR (the viral systems). BV-BRC provides integrated data, advanced bioinformatics tools, and workflows to support the scientific community in understanding and combating infectious diseases.

Domains

microbiology, genomics, health, biomedical

License

Custom

Homepage

bv-brc

Repository

GitHub

Infores ID

Unknown

FAIRsharing ID

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Product Summary

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bv-brc.cli BV-BRC CLI index.html ProcessProduct http Command Line Interface for batch acce...
bv-brc.ftp BV-BRC FTP ftp.html Product http FTP server providing direct access to...
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Details

Overview

The Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC) is an information system designed to support the biomedical research community’s work on bacterial and viral infectious diseases via integration of vital pathogen information with rich data and analysis tools. BV-BRC combines the data, technology, and extensive user communities from two long-running centers: PATRIC, the bacterial system, and IRD/ViPR, the viral systems.

Features

  • Support for diverse bacterial and viral infectious disease research communities
  • Integration of PATRIC and IRD/ViPR resources into a unified resource
  • Unified data model, database, and real-time data integration processes
  • Consistent and accurate genome annotations and other derived data types
  • Automated and manual curation of high value data and metadata
  • Integrated analysis of multi-omics systems biology data using visual analytics tools
  • Phylogenomic and epidemiological analysis for rapid outbreak response
  • Explainable AI/machine learning based tools
  • Private user workspace for data analysis, sharing and publishing
  • Programmatic and batch access via APIs, Command-line Interface (CLI), and FTP

Data Content

BV-BRC includes hundreds of thousands of bacterial genomes from PATRIC and over a million viral genomes from IRD/ViPR. It also hosts data on protein structure and function, clinical studies, drug targets and resistance, epidemiology, and other features.

History

BV-BRC was formed by combining two historically independent efforts: PATRIC (Pathosystems Resource Integration Center) for bacterial data and IRD/ViPR (Influenza Research Database/Virus Pathogen Resource) for viral data. It represents an evolution and integration of these previously separate resources.

BV-BRC is the successor to PATRIC, incorporating all of PATRIC’s bacterial data and functionality while expanding to include viral data from IRD/ViPR. Researchers who previously used PATRIC for bacterial genomics and bioinformatics should now use BV-BRC as it contains all the data and tools from PATRIC plus additional resources and capabilities.

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Created: May 28, 2025 | Last modified: December 13, 2025