| Literature DB >> 23892899 |
Daniel R Mende1, Shinichi Sunagawa, Georg Zeller, Peer Bork.
Abstract
The exponentially increasing number of sequenced genomes necessitates fast, accurate, universally applicable and automated approaches for the delineation of prokaryotic species. We developed specI (species identification tool; http://www.bork.embl.de/software/specI/), a method to group organisms into species clusters based on 40 universal, single-copy phylogenetic marker genes. Applied to 3,496 prokaryotic genomes, specI identified 1,753 species clusters. Of 314 discrepancies with a widely used taxonomic classification, >62% were resolved by literature support.Mesh:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23892899 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2575
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Methods ISSN: 1548-7091 Impact factor: 28.547