在過去的五年里，病毒進化領(lǐng)域迅速發(fā)展，部分原因是基因組序列數(shù)據(jù)的爆炸性增長，在未來幾年，基因組序列數(shù)據(jù)將繼續(xù)以指數(shù)級增長。病毒進化是病毒學(xué)、進化生物學(xué)、流行病學(xué)、生態(tài)學(xué)、計算生物學(xué)、基因組學(xué)等多學(xué)科交叉的研究領(lǐng)域，病毒進化為深入探討病毒進化領(lǐng)域提供了場所。

The field of virus evolution has grown sharply in the past five years, partly due to the explosive growth in availability of genomic sequence data, which will continue to grow at an exponential rate over the coming years. Virus evolution is an inter-disciplinary field worked on by scholars from virology, evolutionary biology, epidemiology, ecology, computational biology and genomics and Virus Evolution provides a venue for in-depth discussion on the field of virus evolution.