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ArticleNucleic acids research2018

Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).

Elliot J Lefkowitz, Donald M Dempsey, Robert Curtis Hendrickson, Richard J Orton, Stuart G Siddell, Donald B Smith

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 666 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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666 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Elliot J LefkowitzDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Donald M DempseyDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Robert Curtis HendricksonDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Richard J OrtonMRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, UK.
Stuart G SiddellSchool of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Donald B SmithNuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UU_12014/12Medical Research Council MC_UU_12014/3Wellcome Trust WT108418AIA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is charged with the task of developing, refining, and maintaining a universal virus taxonomy. This task encompasses the classification of virus species and higher-level taxa according to the genetic and biological properties of their members; naming virus taxa; maintaining a database detailing the currently approved taxonomy; and providing the database, supporting proposals, and other virus-related information from an open-access, public web site. The ICTV web site (http://ictv.global) provides access to the current taxonomy database in online and downloadable formats, and maintains a complete history of virus taxa back to the first release in 1971. The ICTV has also published the ICTV Report on Virus Taxonomy starting in 1971. This Report provides a comprehensive description of all virus taxa covering virus structure, genome structure, biology and phylogenetics. The ninth ICTV report, published in 2012, is available as an open-access online publication from the ICTV web site. The current, 10th report (http://ictv.global/report/), is being published online, and is replacing the previous hard-copy edition with a completely open access, continuously updated publication. No other database or resource exists that provides such a comprehensive, fully annotated compendium of information on virus taxa and taxonomy.

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Databases, FactualForecastingPhylogenyTerminology as TopicViruses

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PMID29040670
PMCPMC5753373

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