Viruses-Basel

Aims Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915) is an open access journal which provides an advanced forum for studies of viruses. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, conference reports and short notes. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. We also encourage the publication of timely reviews and commentaries on topics of interest to the virology community and feature highlights from the virology literature in the ''News and Views'' section. Electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculation and experimental procedure, if unable to be published in a normal way, can be deposited as supplementary material Subject Areas virus, viruses, virion, virology, virological, viral, viral infections, virologist virus classification virus-like agents, viroids, prions bacteriophage viral epidemiology vaccines, viral immunology antiviral drugs, antiviral therapy, antiviral drug development origin of viruses, viral evolution virus structures, genomes virus dynamics, mathematical and simulation models of virus infections Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915; CODEN: VIRUBR) is an open access journal of virology published monthly online by MDPI.Open Access - free for readers, with publishing fees paid by authors or their institutions. High visibility: indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), MEDLINE (PubMed) and other databases. Full-text available in PubMed Central. Rapid publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 36 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 8 days (median values for papers published in this journal in 2015). Editorial Section highlighting important developments to a broad audience of virologists and written by leading experts in the field.