Closed pragermh closed 3 years ago
for TDWG, perhaps get rid of "v" in the three fields in the end of Table 3. To discuss with MIxS group. We need terms that works for all life @thomasstjerne
We discussed this on the meeting on Dec 9th 2020 an suspect the field names may be a legacy from early MIxS (when it was targeted Vira)
However, the example values given for votu_db
are "NCBI Viral RefSeq;83", "UNITE;8.2"
This seems to indicate the field is also used for non-viral OTUs as well (as UNITE 8.2 is mainly for Fungi and Plants).
I have opened an issue for the GSC asking to remove taxonomic scope for votu_class_appr
, votu_seq_comp_appr
and votu_db
.
Specifying ref db:s and algorithms is a good idea, but:
1) the terms UViGs and vOTU in field names _votu_classappr, _votu_seq_compappr, _votudb refer to Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG) and virus Operational Taxonomic Units, so perhaps a bit weird to recommend for describing sequence clustering in general? At least without commenting on this.
2) makes identificationRemarks (as defined in Table 2, same section) redundant.