The home page of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses ICTVdB Home Page ICTVdB Index of Viruses, species lists for all virus Families and Genera ICTVdB virus descriptions automatically generated from ICTVdB database ICTVdB character list, the underlying questionnaire used to build the virus descriptions ICTVdB Picture Gallery avisual entry point to the virus descriptions ICTVdB virus identification and data retrival tool. To use this tool, download the freely available software as described. The online data entry tool can be used by everyone to provided data to ICTVdB by clicking on check boxes for the appropriate choises presented in the questionnaire Home Page of DELTA, the software that is driving the database The ICTVdB Management, Description of the origin and functions of the ICTVdB database A tuturial to learn how to find your way around and of how to use the different outputs from the database displayed on the web.

Columbia University of New York  
Dr Cornelia Büchen-Osmond

Columbia University
ICTVdB Management


P.O. Box 3252
Weston Creek, ACT 2611
Australia

phone: +61 (2) 6287-1487
email:  buechen@gmail.com

 

Career Summary

 
1972-1983: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Hygiene Institut, Klinikum der Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1984 - 1987:Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Fellow, Virus Ecology Group
Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
1991 - 2001: Research Officer, BioInformatics Group
Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
2001 - 2006: Research Scientist
Columbia University of New York, USA.
2007: Retired

 Research interests

Development and curation of ICTVdB, the universal virus database on the Web, under the auspices of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiology Society (IUMS). The ICTVdB incorporates the officially endorsed classification of viruses, gives each an unequivocal decimal classification from order to isolate, and is linked to genomic and other relevant databases. My previous experience in virus diagnosis by electron microscopy has lead to the extensive use of images in ICTVdB, especially to illustrate virus morphology and to facilitate identifications. As a taxonomic database, ICTVdB is continuously under development to take advantage of new information processing technology (supported by grants from the US-NSF), as well as the updating of its information content, through peer review of ICTV Study Groups. The third version of ICTVdB is now ready for release.

Selected Publications

Printed Publications
Büchen-Osmond C (in press) "Taxonomy and Classification of Viruses". In: Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 8th Edition. Patrick R. Murray, (Ed). ASM Press.
Tidona C, Darai G and Büchen-Osmond C (Eds) (2002) Springer Index of Viruses, an online published virus database, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.
Büchen-Osmond C, Blaine, L and Horzinek MC, (2000) "The universal virus database of ICTV (ICTVdB)". In: Virus Taxonomy. Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses, Seventh Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy. M.H.V. van Regenmortel et al., (Eds). Academic Press, New York, San Diego, pp 19-24.
Buechen-Osmond C (1997). Further progress in ICTVdB, a universal virus database. Arch Virol 142:1734- 1739.
Buechen-Osmond C and Dallwitz MJ (1996). Towards a universal virus database - progress in the ICTVdB Arch Virol 141: 392-399.

Electronic Publications
Büchen-Osmond C (2001 onwards) ICTVdB, version 3, based on the 7th ICTV Report and subsequent up-dates.
Index to Classification and Taxonomy of Viruses: listing more than 4500 strains and isolates belonging to about 1550 ICTV approved virus species, 233 genera, 56 families and 3 orders.
Virus descriptions are generated from database of the ICTV approved orders, families, subfamilies, genera and their type species, as well as many more species, strain and isolate descriptions.
Online data submission: a Perl script for easy data entry via the web
Intkey: an inter active key generated from the database for virus identification and data retrieval.
Virus images, another entry point to virus descriptions.
Büchen-Osmond C (1995-2000) ICTVdB, version 2, based on the 6th ICTV Report.
Index Virum: listing more than 4000 ICTV approved virus species, genera, families and orders;
Virus descriptions generated from database of 46 families, 11 subfamilies, 175 genera and their type species ;
Virus images, another entry point to virus descriptions.
Contact Cornelia Büchen-Osmond.
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