TY - JOUR
T1 - The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi
T2 - Handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications
AU - Nilsson, Rolf Henrik
AU - Larsson, Karl Henrik
AU - Taylor, Andy F.S.
AU - Bengtsson-Palme, Johan
AU - Jeppesen, Thomas S.
AU - Schigel, Dmitry
AU - Kennedy, Peter
AU - Picard, Kathryn
AU - Glöckner, Frank Oliver
AU - Tedersoo, Leho
AU - Saar, Irja
AU - Kõljalg, Urmas
AU - Abarenkov, Kessy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.
PY - 2019/1/8
Y1 - 2019/1/8
N2 - UNITE (https://unite.ut.ee/) is a web-based database and sequence management environment for the molecular identification of fungi. It targets the formal fungal barcode-the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region-and offers all â 1/41 000 000 public fungal ITS sequences for reference. These are clustered into â 1/4459 000 species hypotheses and assigned digital object identifiers (DOIs) to promote unambiguous reference across studies. In-house and web-based third-party sequence curation and annotation have resulted in more than 275 000 improvements to the data over the past 15 years. UNITE serves as a data provider for a range of metabarcoding software pipelines and regularly exchanges data with all major fungal sequence databases and other community resources. Recent improvements include redesigned handling of unclassifiable species hypotheses, integration with the taxonomic backbone of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and support for an unlimited number of parallel taxonomic classification systems.
AB - UNITE (https://unite.ut.ee/) is a web-based database and sequence management environment for the molecular identification of fungi. It targets the formal fungal barcode-the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region-and offers all â 1/41 000 000 public fungal ITS sequences for reference. These are clustered into â 1/4459 000 species hypotheses and assigned digital object identifiers (DOIs) to promote unambiguous reference across studies. In-house and web-based third-party sequence curation and annotation have resulted in more than 275 000 improvements to the data over the past 15 years. UNITE serves as a data provider for a range of metabarcoding software pipelines and regularly exchanges data with all major fungal sequence databases and other community resources. Recent improvements include redesigned handling of unclassifiable species hypotheses, integration with the taxonomic backbone of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and support for an unlimited number of parallel taxonomic classification systems.
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U2 - 10.1093/nar/gky1022
DO - 10.1093/nar/gky1022
M3 - Article
C2 - 30371820
AN - SCOPUS:85059796658
SN - 0305-1048
VL - 47
SP - D259-D264
JO - Nucleic acids research
JF - Nucleic acids research
IS - D1
ER -