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| Title |
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses and the 3,142 unassigned species
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Virology Journal, August 2005
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| DOI | 10.1186/1743-422x-2-64 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
CM Fauquet, D Fargette |
| 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. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 265 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Nepal | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Philippines | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 257 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 45 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 44 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 37 | 14% |
| Researcher | 36 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 4% |
| Other | 36 | 14% |
| Unknown | 56 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 113 | 43% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 32 | 12% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 15 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 4% |
| Chemistry | 5 | 2% |
| Other | 23 | 9% |
| Unknown | 66 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 April 2024.
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#1,577,882
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#122
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#1,944
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#2
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