About Dengue Lineages

Our dengue virus lineage system splits up the current genotypes into major and minor lineages to provide additional spatiotemporal resolution and a common language to discuss important genomic diversity. A full description of the lineage system can be found here.

Assign lineages to your sequences

Get started on our site

Review our design or suggest a new lineage here.

Explore information, including phylogenetic analyses, about our lineages here.

Find laboratory and computational resources for sequencing here.

If you use information from our website, please cite this paper.

Lineage system using DENV-3 fgigure — Example of the lineage system using DENV-3. The long-hand description “Dengue virus serotype 3, genotype III, lineage C.2” can be abbreviated as “DENV-3III_C.2” (read as: “dengue three-three-C-dot-two”).

This work was made possible by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number DP2AI176740, European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101000570, CTSA Grant Number UL1 TR001863 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS - a component of the NIH), NIH Award Number 1 U01 AI151807-01, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS/FIOCRUZ 13/2022 – REDE SAÚDE-RS, grant process 23/2551-0000510-7 and FAPERGS 14/2022 - ARD/ARC, grant process 23/2551-0000852-1), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) through their productivity research fellowships (307209/2023-7), funding from philanthropist Mr. Narayana Murthy (17X6777) and the Medical Research Council-São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) CADDE partnership award (MR/S0195/1 and FAPESP 18/14389-0).