SH1399301.10FU

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为基于DNA的物种假说（Species Hypotheses，SH）的界定、识别、传播及相关研究提供了统一的标准化方案。国际核酸序列数据库中的所有真菌内转录间隔区（Internal Transcribed Spacer，ITS）序列，通过应用一组动态距离阈值（0.5%~3.0%），被聚类至近似物种级别的分类单元。所有物种假说均以数字对象标识符（Digital Object Identifier，DOI）的形式获得唯一且稳定的命名，其分类学与生态学注释信息均通过分布式网络第三方注释工作完成核验。每条物种假说均会尽可能关联对应分类单元的名称及其分类层级（如门、纲、目等），该关联过程将综合考量该物种假说内所有序列的鉴定结果。研究人员会为每条物种假说选取一条经自动或人工指定的序列作为其代表序列。此类代表序列已通过https://unite.ut.ee/repository.php对外发布，可供科研界用于本地序列相似性搜索、下一代测序分析流程等科研场景。随着公共真菌ITS序列数据量的持续增长，该系统及其配套数据集将自动完成更新。