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Naming the unnamed: over 65,000 names for unnamed and in the Genome Taxonomy Database Open Access

A corrigendum to this paper has been published here: https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005885

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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Keyword(s): archaeal nomenclature , bacterial nomenclature , candidatus names , genome taxonomy and shotgun metagenomics
© 2022 The Authors
  • This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This article was made open access via a Publish and Read agreement between the Microbiology Society and the corresponding author’s institution.

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Corrigendum: Naming the unnamed: over 65,000 names for unnamed and in the Genome Taxonomy Database
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