tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học:" International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses and the 3,142 unassigned species"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses and the 3,142 unassigned species | Virology Journal BioMed Central Commentary Open Access International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses and the 3 142 unassigned species CM Fauquet 1 and D Fargette2 Address 1International Laboratory for Tropical Agricultural Biotechnology Danforth Plant Science Center 975 N. Warson Rd. St. Louis MO 63132 USA and 2Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement BP 64501 34394 Montpellier cedex 5 France Email CM Fauquet - iltab@ D Fargette - Corresponding author Published 16 August 2005 Received 08 July 2005 Accepted 16 August 2005 Virology Journal 2005 2 64 doi 1743-422X-2-64 This article is available from http content 2 1 64 2005 Fauquet and Fargette licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract 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. Introduction The VIIIth ICTV Report 1 lists more than 6 000 viruses