last update

2025-February-11

VirJenDB

v0.2

About Us

VirJenDB, the Virus database from Jena, Germany, is a service and Use Case of the NFDI4Microbiota, funded by DFG grant number NFDI 28/1 (DFG project number 460129525).

Aims

To provide a web environment for researchers to discover, access, analyze and manage virus sequences, resources and bioinformatics tools

To increase, enrich and improve virus metadata and sequence deposition to ENA/INSDC, especially by metadata schema development

Scope

We aim to support multidisciplinary research – from biotechnology to virology to virus ecology – on all viruses.

Core Team

• Prof. Dr. Manja Marz (Principal Investigator; RNA Bioinformatics & High-Throughput Analysis Group)
• Dr. Noriko Cassman (Coordinator, Curator)
• Shahram Saghaei (Backend Developer)
• Kilian Ossetek (Frontend Developer)

Previous team member(s):

• Hamed Ziraksaz (Frontend Developer)

History

The NFDI4Microbiota consortium is a DFG-funded project involving 10 institutions or universities from all over Germany, constituting research groups with a focus on microbiology, virology, and bioinformatics. The NFDI4Microbiota aims to be the central hub in Germany for supporting the microbiology community with FAIR and Open infrastructure, access to data, analysis services, data/metadata standards, and training. As a part of the NFDI4Microbiota, the VirJenDB project began in 2022 at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. The VJDB website has been live in its beta release since February 2024.