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Like other flaviviruses, it depends on conserved sequence and RNA structural elements that carry out essential steps in its life cycle and in evading host immune defenses. Public sequence databases and annotation tools give free access to Zika sequence data, but comparable structural information is sparse. We built a computational model of Zika sequence and secondary structure for use with the VADR software package, which validates and annotates Zika sequences for GenBank submission and assigns each sequence to a genetic lineage following a published classification scheme. On a test set of 1254 Zika sequences, 97.2% passed validation, and the model\u2019s annotations agreed with those of an existing annotation tool (VIGOR4) for 99.3% of the sequences compared. 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