SH1039182.10FU

UNITE provides a unified way for delimiting, identifying, communicating, and working with DNA-based Species Hypotheses (SH). All fungal ITS sequences in the international nucleotide sequence databases are clustered to approximately the species level by applying a set of dynamic distance values (<0.5 - 3.0%). All species hypotheses are given a unique, stable name in the form of a DOI, and their taxonomic and ecological annotations are verified through distributed, web-based third-party annotation efforts. SHs are connected to a taxon name and its classification as far as possible (phylum, class, order, etc.) by taking into account identifications for all sequences in the SH. An automatically or manually designated sequence is chosen to represent each such SH. These sequences are released (https://unite.ut.ee/repository.php) for use by the scientific community in, for example, local sequence similarity searches and next-generation sequencing analysis pipelines. The system and the data are updated automatically as the number of public fungal ITS sequences grows.

UNITE提供了一套统一的方法，用于界定、识别、传播以及处理基于DNA的物种假说（Species Hypotheses，下文简称SH）相关工作。国际核苷酸序列数据库中的所有真菌内部转录间隔区（Internal Transcribed Spacer，ITS）序列，通过应用一套动态距离阈值（0.5%~3.0%）被聚类至近似物种级别的分类单元。所有物种假说均会被赋予一个以数字对象标识符（Digital Object Identifier，DOI）形式存在的唯一且稳定的名称，其分类学与生态学注释信息将通过分布式网络第三方注释工作进行核验。通过整合该物种假说内所有序列的鉴定结果，尽可能将SH与对应的分类单元名称及其分类层级（如门、纲、目等）建立关联。研究人员会选取一条经自动或人工指定的序列，作为每个SH的代表序列。这些代表序列已对外发布（访问地址：https://unite.ut.ee/repository.php），可供科学界用于本地序列相似性搜索、新一代测序分析流程等场景。随着公共真菌ITS序列数量的增长，该系统与数据集将自动进行更新。