SH1041878.10FU

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提供了一套统一的解决方案，用于界定、识别、交流以及处理基于DNA的物种假说（Species Hypotheses，SH）。国际核苷酸序列数据库中的所有真菌内转录间隔区（Internal Transcribed Spacer，ITS）序列，通过应用一套动态距离阈值（0.5%~3.0%），被聚类至近似物种分类水平的单元。所有物种假说均会被赋予一个唯一且稳定的数字对象唯一标识符（Digital Object Identifier，DOI）格式名称，其分类学与生态学注释信息将通过分布式、基于网页的第三方注释工作完成核验。每个物种假说都会尽可能结合其包含的全部序列的鉴定结果，与对应分类单元名称及其分类层级（门、纲、目等）建立关联。研究人员将选取一条经自动或人工指定的序列，作为各物种假说的代表序列。这些代表序列已通过指定链接（https://unite.ut.ee/repository.php）公开发布，供科研社区使用，例如可用于本地序列相似性搜索以及下一代测序分析流程。随着公共真菌ITS序列数量的持续增长，该系统及其配套数据将自动完成更新。