NCBI Taxonomy

The NCBI Taxonomy database is a curated set of names and classifications for all of the organisms that are represented in GenBank. The EMBL and DDBJ databases, as well as GenBank, now use the NCBI Taxonomy as the standard classification for nucleotide sequences. Taxonomy Contains the names and phylogenetic lineages of more than 160,000 organisms that have molecular data in the NCBI databases. New taxa are added to the Taxonomy database as data are deposited for them. When new sequences are submitted to GenBank, the submission is checked for new organism names, which are then classified and added to the Taxonomy database.

NCBI物种分类数据库乃是对GenBank中所有代表性生物体名称及分类的精选集合。EMBL、DDBJ数据库以及GenBank现均已将NCBI物种分类作为核酸序列的标准分类。该分类体系涵盖了超过16万种具有分子数据的生物体的名称及其系统发育谱系。随着相关数据不断存入，新的分类单元亦会被纳入物种分类数据库。当新的序列提交至GenBank时，系统将对其中的新型生物体名称进行审核，并将之分类后加入物种分类数据库。