IMA Fungus 8(2): e33719, doi: 10.1007/BF03449466
Using standard keywords in publications to facilitate updates of new fungal taxonomic names
expand article infoConrad L. Schoch‡, M. Catherine Aime§, Wilhelm De Beer|, Pedro W. Crous, Kevin D. Hyde#, Lyubomir Penev¤, Keith A. Seifert«, Marc Stadler», Ning Zhang˄, Andrew N. Miller˅
‡ NIH/NLM/NCBI, Bethesda, United States of America§ Purdue University, Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, West Lafayette| University of Pretoria, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Pretoria, South Africa¶ CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht# Mae Fah Luang University, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Chiang Rai, Thailand¤ Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Sofia, Bulgaria« Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Biodiversity (Mycology), Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Ottawa, Canada» Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Department Microbial Drugs, Brunswick, Germany˄ Rutgers University, Department of Plant Biology, New Brunswick˅ International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi, Champaign
© Conrad L. Schoch, M. Aime, Wilhelm De Beer, Pedro Crous, Kevin Hyde, Lyubomir Penev, Keith Seifert, Marc Stadler, Ning Zhang, Andrew Miller.
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Citation: Schoch CL, Aime MC, De Beer W, Crous PW, Hyde KD, Penev L, Seifert KA, Stadler M, Zhang N, Miller AN (2017) Using standard keywords in publications to facilitate updates of new fungal taxonomic names. IMA Fungus 8(2): e33719. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03449466
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Abstract
The combination of manual curation and the reliance on updates from submitters to the public sequence databases is currently inefficient and impedes the comprehensive and timely release of records with new taxonomic names. This should be improved by making several steps during data release more efficient. This article focuses on one such step by proposing a standard way for publications to flag papers with novel taxonomic information. As a result, the potential for automated searches of publication aggregators are improved, as well as the accurate curation of taxonomic information.
Keywords
Data curation, NCBI Taxonomy, Novel taxa, Publication standards