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. 2020 May 24;21:211. doi: 10.1186/s12859-020-3537-3

Table 1.

Viruses with the highest number of sequences in GenBank as of October 10, 2019

species #seqs family
HIV-1 850,115 Retroviridae
Influenza A virus 684,026 Orthomyxoviridae
Hepacivirus C 244,533 Flaviviridae
Hepatitis B virus 114,306 Hepadnaviridae
Influenza B virus 100,373 Orthomyxoviridae
Rotavirus A 73,375 Reoviridae
SIV 44,374 Retroviridae
Norovirus (Norwalk virus) 40,925 Caliciviridae
Enterovirus A 31,478 Picornaviridae
PRRSV 29,081 Arteriviridae
Dengue virus 28,564 Flaviviridae
Human orthopneumovirus 24,384 Pneumoviridae
Enterovirus B 23,865 Picornaviridae
Rabies lyssavirus 23,771 Rhabdoviridae
West Nile virus 21,563 Flaviviridae
Measles morbillivirus 17,233 Paramyxoviridae

The number of sequences for the segmented viruses Influenza and Rotavirus are the sums over all their segments