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ArticleNucleic acids research2026

GTDB release 10: a complete and systematic taxonomy for 715 230 bacterial and 17 245 archaeal genomes.

Donovan H Parks, Pierre-Alain Chaumeil, Aaron J Mussig, Christian Rinke, Maria Chuvochina, Philip Hugenholtz

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 59 papers.

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59 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Donovan H ParksAustralian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6662-9010
Pierre-Alain ChaumeilAustralian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0426-8445
Aaron J MussigAustralian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9988-0866
Christian RinkeDepartment of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 6020, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-4632-1187
Maria ChuvochinaCenter for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg 9220, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-3977-6012
Philip HugenholtzAustralian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5386-7925

Funding

Australian Research Council DP220100900Australian Research Council FT170100213The University of Queensland
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB; https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org) provides a phylogenetically consistent and rank normalized genome-based taxonomy for prokaryotic genomes sourced from the NCBI Assembly database. GTDB release 10 (R10-RS226) spans 715 230 bacterial and 17 245 archaeal genomes organized into 136 646 bacterial and 6968 archaeal species clusters. Fewer new major branches of prokaryotic life are being discovered with each release of GTDB, suggesting that we are beginning to saturate readily discoverable microbial diversity through culture-independent analyses. However, species discovery continues unabated as >95% of bacterial and archaeal species remain to be genomically elucidated based on conservative projections. We present additions to the GTDB website, methodological improvements, policy changes, notable nomenclatural updates, and user applications. We conclude with a summary of future plans for the resource including a fungal taxonomy and a nomenclatural extension to classify pathogens.

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ArchaeaBacteriaDatabases, GeneticGenome, ArchaealGenome, BacterialGenomicsInternetPhylogeny

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PMID41123020
PMCPMC12807784

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