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ArticleNature reviews. Microbiology2017

Consensus statement: Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics.

Peter Simmonds, Mike J Adams, Mária Benkő, Mya Breitbart, J Rodney Brister, Eric B Carstens, Andrew J Davison, Eric Delwart, Alexander E Gorbalenya, Balázs Harrach and 16 more

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Article in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 400 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

400 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

26 authors.

Peter SimmondsNuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3SY, UK.
Mike J Adams
Mária BenkőInstitute for Veterinary Medical Research, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 21 Hungária krt., Budapest H-1143, Hungary.
Mya BreitbartUniversity of South Florida, College of Marine Science, 140 7th Avenue South, Saint Petersburg, Florida 33701, USA.
J Rodney BristerNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
Eric B CarstensDepartment of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, 18 Stuart Street, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.
Andrew J DavisonUK Medical Research Council (MRC)-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Sir Michael Stoker Building, 464 Bearsden Road, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK.
Eric DelwartBlood Systems Research Institute, 270 Masonic Avenue, San Francisco, California 94118, USA.
Alexander E GorbalenyaDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, E4-P, room E4-72, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands.
Balázs HarrachInstitute for Veterinary Medical Research, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 21 Hungária krt., Budapest H-1143, Hungary.
Roger HullThe John Innes Centre, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.
Andrew M Q KingThe Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK.
Eugene V KooninNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
Mart KrupovicDepartment of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, 25 Rue du Dr Roux, 75015 Paris, France.
Jens H KuhnNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), B-8200 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA.
Elliot J LefkowitzDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Bevill Biomedical Research Building (BBRB) Suite 276, 845 19th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-2170, USA.
Max L NibertDepartment of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Richard OrtonUK Medical Research Council (MRC)-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Sir Michael Stoker Building, 464 Bearsden Road, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK.
Marilyn J RoossinckDepartment of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
Sead SabanadzovicDepartment of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, 100 Old Highway 12 Mail Stop 9775, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762, USA.
Matthew B SullivanDepartments of Microbiology and Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
Curtis A SuttleDepartments of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Microbiology and Immunology, and Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Robert B TeshDepartment of Pathology and Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, Texas 77555-0609, USA.
René A van der VlugtWageningen Plant Research, Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR-PRI), Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Arvind VarsaniThe Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, The Biodesign Institute and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 1001 South McAllister Avenue, Tempe, Arizona 85281-2115, USA.
F Murilo ZerbiniDepartamento de Fitopatologia/BIOAGRO, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais 36570-900, Brazil.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UU_12014/12Medical Research Council MC_UU_12014/3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The number and diversity of viral sequences that are identified in metagenomic data far exceeds that of experimentally characterized virus isolates. In a recent workshop, a panel of experts discussed the proposal that, with appropriate quality control, viruses that are known only from metagenomic data can, and should be, incorporated into the official classification scheme of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Although a taxonomy that is based on metagenomic sequence data alone represents a substantial departure from the traditional reliance on phenotypic properties, the development of a robust framework for sequence-based virus taxonomy is indispensable for the comprehensive characterization of the global virome. In this Consensus Statement article, we consider the rationale for why metagenomic sequence data should, and how it can, be incorporated into the ICTV taxonomy, and present proposals that have been endorsed by the Executive Committee of the ICTV.

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