An ongoing outbreak of a novel coronavirus infection in Wuhan, China since Dec 2019 has led to 31,516 infection persons and 638 deaths across 25 countries (till 16;00 on Feb 7, 2020). The virus causing this pneumonia was then named as the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by WHO. To promote the data sharing and make all relevant information of 2019-nCoV publicly available, we construct the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Resource (2019nCoVR, https://bigd.big.ac.cn/ncov). 2019NCoVR features comprehensive integration of genomic and National Center for Biotechnol. Information, China National GenBank, National Microbiol. Data Center and China National Center for Bioinformation (CNCB)/National Genomics Data Center (NGDC). It also incorporates a wide range of relevant information including scientific literatures, news, and popular articles for science dissemination, and provides visualization functionalities for genome variation anal. results based on all collected 2019-nCoV strains. Moreover, by linking seamlessly with related databases in CNCB/NGDC, 2019nCoVR offer virus data submission and sharing services for raw sequence reads and assembled sequences. In this report, we provide comprehensive descriptions on data deposition, management, release and utility in 2019nCoVR, laying important foundations in aid of studies on virus classification and origin, genome variation and evolution, fast detection, drug development and pneumonia precision prevention and therapy.