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Social Influence of Biological Viruses on Communities

Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Computer Science and IT, Federal Urdu University, Karachi, PAKISTAN
  • 1HIIT, FEST, Hamdard University, Karachi, PAKISTAN <>

Int. Res. J. Biological Sci., Volume 1, Issue (8), Pages 71-75, December,10 (2012)

Abstract

Biological viruses are the world smallest microorganism that survives and dependant on other organisms. Biological viruses have impact on different communities like human, plant and animal. Viruses affect along with their hosts and have been recently classified using ontologies. The Biological Viruses Community Ontology (BVCO) contains different viral communities that allow investigating different biological viruses and its impact on those communities. The BVCO based on Core Ontology (Biological Viruses Ontology) which has the viruses definition and Species Ontology which contains the communities of living organism. This all-ontological information will help us to classify and analyze the impact of viruses on different communities. Viruses have badly and beneficial influences, as infectious diseases or a biological weapon, plant virus transmission process, marine nutrient and energy cycles, virus impacts continues to spread all over the world. The current study aims to define the good or bad impacts of virus on society.

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