International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses and the 3,142 unassigned species.
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses and the 3,142 unassigned species.
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DOI：
10.1186/1743-422x-2-64
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发表时间：
2005-08-16
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Fargette D
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作者：
Fauquet CM;Fargette D
2005年，国际微生物学会联盟病毒学分部负责病毒命名和分类的官方机构ICTV（国际病毒分类委员会）将发布其最新报告，即病毒命名和分类学的最新进展。该书列出了 6,000 多种病毒，分为 1,950 个物种和 391 多个不同的高等分类单元。然而，GenBank 中还包含 ICTV 报告中未说明的 3,142 个“物种”，数量惊人。本文回顾了这种情况的原因，并提出了在不久的将来可以采取哪些措施来解决这个问题，特别是考虑到未来几年病毒测序量可能增加十倍，从而产生许多未分类的病毒。 ICTV 和 GenBank 都可以做出一些改变，以便将来更好地处理病毒分类和分类。
In 2005, ICTV (International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses), the official body of the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiological Societies responsible for naming and classifying viruses, will publish its latest report, the state of the art in virus nomenclature and taxonomy. The book lists more than 6,000 viruses classified in 1,950 species and in more than 391 different higher taxa. However, GenBank contains a staggering additional 3,142 "species" unaccounted for by the ICTV report. This paper reviews the reasons for such a situation and suggests what might be done in the near future to remedy this problem, particularly in light of the potential for a ten-fold increase in virus sequencing in the coming years that would generate many unclassified viruses. A number of changes could be made both at ICTV and GenBank to better handle virus taxonomy and classification in the future.