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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles
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Journal of General Virology ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles are a freely available series of concise, review-type articles that provide overviews of the classification, structure and properties of individual virus orders, families and genera.
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles are written by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) study groups, comprised of leading experts in the field. The profiles summarise the individual chapters from the ICTV’s online 10th Report on Virus Taxonomy, and provide the latest taxonomic information on viruses.
The Microbiology Society is publishing these citable profiles online, while the full chapters are available to all through the ICTV website, thanks to a five-year Biomedical Resources grant from the Wellcome Trust.
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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Summaries
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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Summaries are published by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) annually in Journal of General Virology and provide a complete and authoritative record of all ratified taxonomy changes made by the ICTV in the preceding year. Taxonomy Summaries are produced by the seven ICTV subcommittees with remits for Archaeal Viruses, Bacterial Viruses, Fungal and Protist Viruses, Plant Viruses, Animal DNA Viruses and Retro Viruses, Animal dsRNA and ssRNA- viruses, and Animal ssRNA+ viruses, and a further summary of General Taxonomy changes.
The Taxonomy Summaries are collectively co-authored by all contributors of accepted taxonomy proposals included in the article. The text comprises an abstract, a general introduction written by the subcommittee chair, followed by a listing of each proposal in abbreviated form that provides its unique ICTV code, title, authorship, summary of taxonomic changes, a tabulated list of changes and a link to the full taxonomy proposal on the ICTV website. Each summary includes as keywords all superseded and new taxon names referred to in the proposals; these are indexed and therefore searchable in bibliographic databases such as PubMed.
The summaries are designed to provide a published and citeable source for all taxonomic changes such as the assignment of new taxa or re-classifying viruses. For guidance on how to cite these summaries please refer to: Virus taxonomy proposal summaries: A searchable and citeable resource to disseminate virus taxonomy advances.We propose that citations of the summary should be supplemented with the relevant ICTV taxonomy proposal code in the format "[34] (proposal 2024.003A)" or "[34] (Yimin et al.; proposal 2024.003A)" where [34] is the citation for the Taxonomy Summary, “Yimin et al. is an optional reference to the authorship of the proposal and “2024.003A” is the abbreviated ICTV code for the taxonomy proposal within the cited summary. Reference to multiple proposals within a summary could be formatted as in this example “Two additional species of orthohantaviruses were described [34] (proposals 2024.001M and 2024.017M).”
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International Coronavirus Networks Collection
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US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the UK International Coronavirus Network (UK-ICN) - Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (BBSRC) and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Biosafety Level 4 Zoonotic Laboratory Network (BSL4ZNet), the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) collective bring together findings and lessons learnt for science foresight perspectives on Coronaviruses into our future.
The scope of the collection includes:
What we know: SARS, MERS, HCoVs and COVID-19
Emergence: Animal-human-animal interfaces
ABC: Bringing AIML, Bioinformatics and Coronavirology together
Social Contributions: Impacts of human and animal behaviours
Known Unknowns: Bat betacoronaviruses with Disease X potential
Prevention and Cure: Medical countermeasures (human and veterinary)
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