在过去的五年里，病毒进化领域迅速发展，部分原因是基因组序列数据的爆炸性增长，在未来几年，基因组序列数据将继续以指数级增长。病毒进化是病毒学、进化生物学、流行病学、生态学、计算生物学、基因组学等多学科交叉的研究领域，病毒进化为深入探讨病毒进化领域提供了场所。
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.