Where is the HIVDB data from?
The data have been obtained from more than 900 literature and GenBank references. About 15% of the data have been obtained from published research performed at Stanford University whereas the remainder is from published papers and/or GenBank. In some cases, a published paper or a GenBank submission contains sufficient data for entry into HIVDB. In other cases, data within a paper must be linked on a sequence by sequence basis to establish the correlations between a sequence and the ARV treatment of the person from whom the sequenced virus were obtained. In a large proportion of cases, contributors to the database have provided essential information directly to the HIVDB staff to make it possible to add their data to the database.
