Announcement: It is with much regret that we have to inform you that funding to support the development of the Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (www.vbrc.org / www.biovirus.org) has ended. This includes funding for our companion web sites, poxvirus.org, HCVdb.org, and DengueDb.org. The NIH/NIAID is now funding virus bioinformatics resources through the group that currently provides the influenza virus database (http://www.viprbrc.org).

Although we will try and keep the VBRC services functional for as long as possible, we will not be providing updates to the data and annotations. Of course, we will be maintaining some of the VBRC databases and bioinformatics software for our own research projects and, as always, welcome collaborations.

Our biggest joy in developing the VBRC was our direct interactions with the virology research community. Our biggest regret in not being able to continue to develop the VBRC will be not being able to continue to serve that research community and our colleagues, supporters, and friends. However, we are not disappearing from the field and look forward to continued work and interactions with the most collegial group of colleagues we have ever had the pleasure to know.

Elliot Lefkowitz, and Chris Upton.