Enhancement: Host

[mihinduk]

Hi Mike,
It would be VERY helpful if Hecatomb could link host information to the taxonomy. I have attached a file with a list of viral families and hosts that could help with this.

Thank you,
Kathie
2020_11_24_Viral_Family_host.xlsx

[mihinduk]

Here are some additional families (added to ICTV after the attached file was made).
Family Host
Adintoviridae Eukaryotes
Aliusviridae Insects
Crepuscuviridae Insects
Curvulaviridae Fungi
Guelinviridae Bacteria
Kolmioviridae Vertebrates icluding humans
Metaxyviridae Plants
Myriaviridae Arthropods
Natareviridae Arthropods
Simuloviridae Haloarchaea
Steitzviridae Bacteria
Zobellviridae Bacteria

[mihinduk]

I was thinking that the column should be called "Known_hosts" to emphasize that additional hosts could be discovered

[beardymcjohnface]

This is an excellent idea. For now it would be a simple table-join to incorporate this during analysis, and we could add this to the tutorial.

[beardymcjohnface]

do we want the host information in a more controlled format? I'm looking at some of the lines and it's not particularly ideal:

e.g.
Alphatetraviridae Insects: Butterflies, Moths
Caulimoviridae Plants, Insects

Do we want to be able to group say all the insect-host viral families (which would be a problem with the current format)?

[mihinduk]

Hi Mike, I think that would be fine. I just copied what ViralZone had. I would think that we would always want to include humans as their own category and not collapse to mammals if there are other mammals. Kathie From: Michael Roach ***@***.***> Date: Sunday, May 22, 2022 at 7:26 PM To: shandley/hecatomb ***@***.***> Cc: Mihindukulasuriya, Kathie ***@***.***>, Author ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [shandley/hecatomb] Enhancement: Host (Issue #66) * External Email - Caution * do we want the host information in a more controlled format? I'm looking at some of the lines and it's not particularly ideal: e.g. Alphatetraviridae Insects: Butterflies, Moths Caulimoviridae Plants, Insects Do we want to be able to group say all the insect-host viral families (which would be a problem with the current format)? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#66 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ANDVLDK6IK4OUDJC3YPCEK3VLLGEBANCNFSM5OY2CDBA>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

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