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: Received: 29 November 2021 / Approved: 30 November 2021 / Online: 30 November 2021 (10:53:50 CET)
How to cite:
Pallen, M.; Alikhan, N. Naming the Unnamed: Over 45,000 Candidatus Names for Unnamed Archaea and Bacteria in the Genome Taxonomy Database. Preprints2021, 2021110557. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202111.0557.v1
Pallen, M.; Alikhan, N. Naming the Unnamed: Over 45,000 Candidatus Names for Unnamed Archaea and Bacteria in the Genome Taxonomy Database. Preprints 2021, 2021110557. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202111.0557.v1
Pallen, M.; Alikhan, N. Naming the Unnamed: Over 45,000 Candidatus Names for Unnamed Archaea and Bacteria in the Genome Taxonomy Database. Preprints2021, 2021110557. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202111.0557.v1
APA Style
Pallen, M., & Alikhan, N. (2021). Naming the Unnamed: Over 45,000 Candidatus Names for Unnamed Archaea and Bacteria in the Genome Taxonomy Database. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202111.0557.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Pallen, M. and Nabil-Fareed Alikhan. 2021 "Naming the Unnamed: Over 45,000 Candidatus Names for Unnamed Archaea and Bacteria in the Genome Taxonomy Database" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202111.0557.v1
Abstract
Thousands of new bacterial and archaeal species and higher-level taxa are discovered each year through the analysis of genomes and metagenomes. The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB) provides hierarchical sequence-based descriptions and classifications for new and as-yet-unnamed taxa. However, bacterial nomenclature, as currently configured, cannot keep up with the need for new well-formed names. Instead, microbiologists have been forced to use hard-to-remember alphanumeric placeholder labels. Here, we exploit an approach to the generation of well-formed arbitrary Latinate names at a scale sufficient to name tens of thousands of unnamed taxa within GTDB. These newly created names represent an important resource for the microbiology community, facilitating communication between bioinformaticians, microbiologists and taxonomists, while populating the emerging landscape of microbial taxonomic and functional discovery with accessible and memorable linguistic labels.
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