Adriaenssens Evelien, Brister J Rodney
Microbiology Research Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK.
Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee, International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses.
Viruses. 2017 Apr 3;9(4):70. doi: 10.3390/v9040070.
With this informal guide, we try to assist both new and experienced phage researchers through two important stages that follow phage discovery; that is, naming and classification. Providing an appropriate name for a bacteriophage is not as trivial as it sounds, and the effects might be long-lasting in databases and in official taxon names. Phage classification is the responsibility of the Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee (BAVS) of the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). While the BAVS aims at providing a holistic approach to phage taxonomy, for individual researchers who have isolated and sequenced a new phage, this can be a little overwhelming. We are now providing these researchers with an informal guide to phage naming and classification, taking a "bottom-up" approach from the phage isolate level.
通过这份非正式指南，我们试图在噬菌体发现后的两个重要阶段帮助新老噬菌体研究人员，即命名和分类。为噬菌体提供一个合适的名称并非听起来那么简单，其影响可能会在数据库和官方分类名称中长久存在。噬菌体分类由国际病毒分类委员会（ICTV）的细菌和古菌病毒小组委员会（BAVS）负责。虽然BAVS旨在提供一种全面的噬菌体分类方法，但对于已分离并测序新噬菌体的个体研究人员来说，这可能会有点让人应接不暇。我们现在从噬菌体分离株层面采用“自下而上”的方法，为这些研究人员提供一份关于噬菌体命名和分类的非正式指南。
