Statement of needΒΆ

BioVirusHost is a simple Python interface to query the information from Virus-Host DB. Virus-Host DB provides a collection of viruses and their host information, and it is the biggest database for now ( see : https://www.genome.jp/virushostdb/stat.html ).

The need to access the information from the Virus-Host DB in a simple pythonic way is very useful for collecting data about viruses and hosts. BioVirusHost is a package that allows connecting to the Virus-Host DB API and parses information from it.

Virus-Host DB does not provide API documentation or examples, hence BioVirusHost was developed to connect, get, and parse information fast and easy.