IMA Fungus 4(2): 371-379, doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2013.04.02.16

MycoBank gearing up for new horizons

Vincent Robert^‡, Duong Vu, Ammar Ben Amor^§, Nathalie Van De Wiele^§, Carlo Brouwer^§, Bernard Jabas^§, Szaniszlo Szoke^§, Ahmed Dridi^§, Maher Triki^§, Samy ben Daoud^§, Oussema Chouchen^§, Lea Vaas^§, Arthur De Cock^|, Joost A. Stalpers^¶, Dora Stalpers^§, Gerard J. Verkley^§, Marizeth Groenewald^¶, Felipe Borges Dos Santos^§, Gerrit Stegehuis^§, Wei Li^#, Linhuan Wu^#, Run Zhang^#, Juncai Ma^#, Miaomiao Zhou^§, Sergio Pérez Gorjón, Lily Eurwilaichitr^¤, Supawadee Ingsriswang^¤, Karen Hansen, Conrad Schoch^«, Barbara Robbertse^«, Laszlo Irinyi^», Wieland Meyer^˄, Gianluigi Cardinali^˅, David L. Hawksworth^¦, John W. Taylor, Pedro W. Crous^¶

‡ Mycobank, CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands§ CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Center, Utrecht| Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht¶ CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht# Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology, Chaoyang District, Beijing¤ National CenterforGenetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Klong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand« National Institutes of Health, Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda» The University of Sydney, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity and Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney Medical School, Westmead Clinical School, Sydney, Australia˄ University of Sydney Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, ICPMR, Level 3, Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney Medical School - Westmead, Westmead, Australia˅ University of Perugia, Department Pharmaceutical Sciences, Perugia, Italy¦ Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Biología Vegetal II, Facultad de Farmacia, Madrid, Spain

© Vincent Robert, Duong Vu, Ammar Amor, Nathalie Van De Wiele, Carlo Brouwer, Bernard Jabas, Szaniszlo Szoke, Ahmed Dridi, Maher Triki, Samy Daoud, Oussema Chouchen, Lea Vaas, Arthur De Cock, Joost Stalpers, Dora Stalpers, Gerard Verkley, Marizeth Groenewald, Felipe Dos Santos, Gerrit Stegehuis, Wei Li, Linhuan Wu, Run Zhang, Juncai Ma, Miaomiao Zhou, Sergio Gorjón, Lily Eurwilaichitr, Supawadee Ingsriswang, Karen Hansen, Conrad Schoch, Barbara Robbertse, Laszlo Irinyi, Wieland Meyer, Gianluigi Cardinali, David Hawksworth, John Taylor, Pedro Crous.

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Citation: Robert V, Vu D, Amor A, Van De Wiele N, Brouwer C, Jabas B, Szoke S, Dridi A, Triki M, Daoud S, Chouchen O, Vaas L, De Cock A, Stalpers JA, Stalpers D, Verkley GJ, Groenewald M, Dos Santos F, Stegehuis G, Li W, Wu L, Zhang R, Ma J, Zhou M, Gorjón S, Eurwilaichitr L, Ingsriswang S, Hansen K, Schoch C, Robbertse B, Irinyi L, Meyer W, Cardinali G, Hawksworth DL, Taylor JW, Crous PW (2013) MycoBank gearing up for new horizons. IMA Fungus 4(2): 371-379. https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2013.04.02.16

Abstract

MycoBank, a registration system for fungi established in 2004 to capture all taxonomic novelties, acts as a coordination hub between repositories such as Index Fungorum and Fungal Names. Since January 2013, registration of fungal names is a mandatory requirement for valid publication under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (ICN). This review explains the database innovations that have been implemented over the past few years, and discusses new features such as advanced queries, registration of typification events (MBT numbers for lecto, epi- and neotypes), the multi-lingual database interface, the nomenclature discussion forum, annotation system, and web services with links to third parties. MycoBank has also introduced novel identifcation services, linking DNAsequence data to numerous related databases to enable intelligent search queries. Although MycoBank flls an important void for taxon registration, challenges for the future remain to improve links between taxonomic names and DNA data, and to also introduce a formal system for naming fungi known from DNA sequence data only. To further improve the quality of MycoBank data, remote access will now allow registered mycologists to act as MycoBank curators, using Citrix software.

Keywords

MycoBank, EUBOLD identification services, Forum, Fungi, International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, Next Generation Sequencing, Nomenclature, Registration, Repositories, Typification