Jamdhade Ashwini Rajendra, Hivrale Vandana K
Department of Biochemistry, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.
Methods Mol Biol. 2025;2927:127-141. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4546-8_7.
Taxonomic classification is the scientific study that categorizes organisms into their appropriate taxonomic hierarchy based on unique characteristics aiding in identifying new organisms. Virus taxonomy provides a framework that integrates the biological, clinical, and evolutionary attributes of viruses. This comprehensive understanding holds great practical values. For instance, when a virus transition occurs from an animal reservoir to humans, a taxonomic perspective helps us determine its origin, its host, replication and reproduction mechanisms, its disease-causing properties, and human responses to infection. This, in turn, enables us to develop treatments and design vaccines more effectively. This chapter discusses how to explore novel and known viruses and their potential classification and taxonomy using the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses web portal.
分类学是一门科学研究，它根据有助于识别新生物的独特特征，将生物分类到适当的分类层级中。病毒分类学提供了一个整合病毒生物学、临床和进化属性的框架。这种全面的理解具有重大的实用价值。例如，当病毒从动物宿主传播到人类时，从分类学角度有助于我们确定其起源、宿主、复制和繁殖机制、致病特性以及人类对感染的反应。这进而使我们能够更有效地开发治疗方法和设计疫苗。本章讨论如何利用国际病毒分类委员会的门户网站探索新的和已知的病毒及其潜在的分类和分类学。
