Data Integration for Improved Analysis of Microbial Stain Characteristics

国际病毒分类委员会（ICTV）， 1970年由国际联合会 微生物学会（IUMS），提供统一的分类 易混淆病毒分类和命名方案 病毒学各分支学科之间的现状。代码 ICTV的数据小组委员会取得了实质性进展 为了开发一个通用的代码， 但是，由于病毒特征之间的一些差异， 病毒学家和不断变化的技术，这项工作 需要进行重大修订和更新。 缺乏广泛的 一套公认的标准化术语，用于描述所有类型 病毒的传播导致了 在ICTV外面。这些努力，以分类的特点， 植物、昆虫、微生物和脊椎动物病毒显示出惊人的 内容相似，尽管精确的术语远 从标准。代码和数据小组委员会已经采取了第一个 通过一个统一的步骤， 调查现有的病毒数据库， 美国国家科学基金会（NSF）主办的“研讨会上， 病毒特征的标准化术语。“这是 研讨会与会者一致认为， 标准描述符将提供一个“软件独立的” 数据库开发和数据交换的工具 病毒学家 这份提交给NSF的提案要求资助 编制和传播这一标准化术语 在ICTV代码和数据小组委员会的指导下。 它 预计这一数据集将成为一个 世界病毒数据库，其目的是提供一个 标准国际参考工具，供编辑、出版商 数据库开发人员和研究社区。

The International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), was established in 1970 by the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS), to provide a unified taxonomic scheme for the confusing virus classification and nomenclature situation existing among the subdisciplines of virology. The Code and Data Subcommittee of ICTV has made substantial progress towards the development of a universal code for the description of virus characters but, because of some disparity among subgroups of virologists and changing technology, this work requires major revision and updating. The absence of a widely recognized set of standardized terms for characterizing all types of viruses has resulted in duplication of effort by groups outside the ICTV. These efforts to classify characteristics of plant, insect, microbial, and vertebrate viruses show striking similarity in content, although the precise terminology is far from standard. The Code and Data Subcommittee has taken the first steps toward unification of these various schemes through a survey of existing virus databases and by attendance at a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored "Workshop on Standardized Terminology of Virus Characteristics." It was the consensus of participants at this Workshop that the availability of standard descriptors would provide a "software independent" tool to facilitate database development and data exchange among virologists. This proposal to the NSF requests funding for generation and dissemination of this standardized terminology under the direction of the ICTV Code and Data Subcommittee. It is anticipated that this data set will be the foundation of a World Virus Database, the purpose of which would be to provide a standard international reference tool for editors, publishers, database developers, and the research community.