The genomic underpinnings of eukaryotic virus taxonomy: creating a sequence-based framework for family-level virus classification

The genomic underpinnings of eukaryotic virus taxonomy: creating a sequence-based framework for family-level virus classification

Abstract Background The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) classifies viruses into families, genera and species and provides a regulated system for their nomenclature that is universally used in virus descriptions. Virus taxonomic assignments have traditionally been based upon vir...

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Main Authors: Pakorn Aiewsakun, Peter Simmonds
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-02-01
Series:Microbiome
Subjects:
Virus
Metagenomic
Taxonomy
Virus classification
Taxon
Hidden Markov model
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-018-0422-7

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