Microbial Resource and Big Data Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Chinese National Microbiology Data Center (NMDC), Beijing 100101, China.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Jan 6;51(D1):D708-D716. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac926.
Fungal taxonomy is a complex and rapidly changing subject, which makes proper naming of fungi challenging for taxonomists. A registration platform with a standardized and information-integrated database is a powerful tool for efficient research on fungal taxonomy. Fungal Names (FN, https://nmdc.cn/fungalnames/; launched in 2011) is one of the three official fungal nomenclatural repositories authorized by the International Nomenclature Committee for Fungi (NCF). Currently, FN includes >567 000 taxon names from >10 000 related journals and books published since 1596 and covers >147 000 collection records of type specimens/illustrations from >5000 preserving agencies. FN is also a knowledge base that integrates nomenclature information with specimens, culture collections and herbaria/fungaria, publications and taxonomists, and represents a summary of the history and recent advances in fungal taxonomy. Published fungal names are categorized based on well-accepted nomenclature rules and can be readily searched with different keywords and strategies. In combination with a standardized name checking tool and a sequence alignment-based identification package, FN makes the registration and typification of nomenclatural novelties of fungi convenient and accurate.
真菌分类学是一个复杂且快速变化的学科,这使得真菌分类学家难以正确命名真菌。一个具有标准化和信息集成数据库的注册平台是进行真菌分类学高效研究的有力工具。真菌名称数据库(FN,https://nmdc.cn/fungalnames/;于 2011 年推出)是国际真菌命名委员会(NCF)授权的三个官方真菌命名存储库之一。目前,FN 包含自 1596 年以来出版的来自 10000 多种相关期刊和书籍的超过 567000 个分类群名称,并涵盖了来自 5000 多个保存机构的超过 147000 个模式标本/插图的收藏记录。FN 还是一个集成了命名信息与标本、培养物收藏、标本馆/真菌标本馆、出版物和分类学家的知识库,代表了真菌分类学历史和最新进展的总结。已发表的真菌名称基于可接受的分类学规则进行分类,并可以使用不同的关键词和策略进行快速搜索。结合标准化名称检查工具和基于序列比对的鉴定包,FN 使真菌命名新类群的注册和分型变得方便且准确。