Genome Taxonomy Database
Content
DescriptionProposed prokaryotic nomenclature
Contact
Research centerAustralian Centre for Ecogenomics, University of Queensland
AuthorsPhil Hugenholtz, Maria Chuvochina, Christian Rinke
Primary citationPMID 30148503
Release date2018
Access
Websitehttps://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/
Miscellaneous
LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0
VersionR07/RS207 (8 April 2022)
Curation policymixed

The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB) is an online database that maintains information on a proposed nomenclature of prokaryotes, following a phylogenomic approach based on a set of conserved single-copy proteins. In addition to resolving paraphyletic groups, this method also reassigns taxonomic ranks algorithmically, updating names in both cases.[1] Information for archaea was added in 2020,[2] along with a species classification based on average nucleotide identity.[3] Each update incorporates new genomes as well as automated and manual curation of the taxonomy.[4]

An open-source tool called GTDB-Tk is available to classify draft genomes into the GTDB hierarchy.[5] The GTDB system, via GTDB-Tk, has been used to catalogue not-yet-named bacteria in the human gut microbiome and other metagenomic sources.[6][7]

The GTDB is incorporated into the Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria in 2019 as its phylogenomic resource.[8]

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References

  1. ^ Parks, DH; Chuvochina, M; Waite, DW; Rinke, C; Skarshewski, A; Chaumeil, PA; Hugenholtz, P (November 2018). "A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially revises the tree of life". Nature Biotechnology. 36 (10): 996–1004. bioRxiv 10.1101/256800. doi:10.1038/nbt.4229. PMID 30148503. S2CID 52093100.
  2. ^ Rinke, Christian; Chuvochina, Maria; Mussig, Aaron J.; Chaumeil, Pierre-Alain; Davín, Adrián A.; Waite, David W.; Whitman, William B.; Parks, Donovan H.; Hugenholtz, Philip (21 June 2021). "A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database" (PDF). Nature Microbiology. 6 (7): 946–959. doi:10.1038/s41564-021-00918-8. ISSN 2058-5276. PMID 34155373. S2CID 235595884.
  3. ^ Parks, DH; Chuvochina, M; Chaumeil, PA; Rinke, C; Mussig, AJ; Hugenholtz, P (September 2020). "A complete domain-to-species taxonomy for Bacteria and Archaea". Nature Biotechnology. 38 (9): 1079–1086. bioRxiv 10.1101/771964. doi:10.1038/s41587-020-0501-8. PMID 32341564. S2CID 216560589.
  4. ^ For information on each update, see relevant change logs. For notable, paper-worthy changes, see "Cite GTDB" section on the About page.
  5. ^ Chaumeil, PA; Mussig, AJ; Hugenholtz, P; Parks, DH (15 November 2019). "GTDB-Tk: a toolkit to classify genomes with the Genome Taxonomy Database". Bioinformatics. 36 (6): 1925–1927. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz848. PMC 7703759. PMID 31730192.
  6. ^ Almeida, Alexandre; Nayfach, Stephen; Boland, Miguel; Strozzi, Francesco; Beracochea, Martin; Shi, Zhou Jason; Pollard, Katherine S.; Sakharova, Ekaterina; Parks, Donovan H.; Hugenholtz, Philip; Segata, Nicola; Kyrpides, Nikos C.; Finn, Robert D. (20 July 2020). "A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome". Nature Biotechnology. 39 (1): 105–114. doi:10.1038/s41587-020-0603-3. PMC 7801254. PMID 32690973.
  7. ^ Nayfach, Stephen; et al. (9 November 2020). "A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes". Nature Biotechnology. 39 (4): 499–509. doi:10.1038/s41587-020-0718-6. PMC 8041624. PMID 33169036.
  8. ^ "Incorporation of Phylogenomics into BMSAB". Bergey's Manual Trust.

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