A
good source of up-to-date microbial taxonomy is the website Names for Life.
NamesforLife
was founded to solve a long-standing problem in biology: resolution of the
ambiguity between nomenclature and biological objects and concepts.
NamesforLife technology, N4L, makes names actionable. In a N4L-enabled document
or database, when encountering a name, the user clicks or mouses over it and a
menu of authoritative information is displayed: an up-to-date historical record
of both the name and taxon in its current and prior states and its synonyms;
technical and non-technical papers in which the organism is a key subject;
information about its availability from biological resource centers, databases
holding molecular sequence data; and reliable information regarding its
pathogenicity, utility, and safety requirements are made available.
Posted by Tim Sandle
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