Center of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Trends Microbiol. 2020 Nov;28(11):871-874. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2020.09.007. Epub 2020 Sep 24.
Prokaryotic taxonomic assignments are shifting to genome-based algorithms. A recent study (Parks et al., 2020) has advanced genome-based taxonomy by constructing reference databases, computing average nucleotide identity and assigning tentative placeholder species names. However, prokaryotic taxonomy should be carefully curated and updated in a timely fashion; this requires coordinated efforts of prokaryotic taxonomists, genomicists, and database curators.
原核生物的分类学任务正在向基于基因组的算法转移。最近的一项研究（Parks 等人，2020 年）通过构建参考数据库、计算平均核苷酸同一性和分配暂定占位符物种名称，推进了基于基因组的分类学。然而，原核生物的分类学应该仔细管理并及时更新；这需要原核生物分类学家、基因组学家和数据库管理员的协调努力。
