LINbase: a web server for genome-based identification of prokaryotes as members of crowdsourced taxa.

ABSTRACT: High throughput DNA sequencing in combination with efficient algorithms could provide the basis for a highly resolved, genome phylogeny-based and digital prokaryotic taxonomy. However, current taxonomic practice continues to rely on cumbersome journal publications for the description of new species, which still constitute the smallest taxonomic units. In response, we introduce LINbase, a web server that allows users to genomically circumscribe any group of prokaryotes with measurable DNA similarity and that uses the individual isolate as smallest unit. Since LINbase leverages the concept of Life Identification Numbers (LINs), which are codes assigned to individual genomes based on reciprocal average nucleotide identity, we refer to groups circumscribed in LINbase as LINgroups. Users can as

SUBMITTER: Tian L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7319462 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature