The Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (VBRC) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Victoria is one of eight NIH/NIAID-funded Bioinformatics Resource Centers nationwide providing comprehensive web-based genomics resources to the scientific community conducting basic and applied research on microorganisms selected from the NIH/NIAID Category A, B, and C priority pathogens that are regarded as possible bioterrorist threats or as emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases. The VBRC is concerned primarily with viruses encompassing the families Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, Flaviviridae, Filoviridae, Paramyxoviridae, Poxviridae, and Togaviridae.