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RDP extensible sequence classifier for fungal lsu, bacterial and archaeal 16s
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How to map RDP Nomenclature to NCBI Nomenclature? #12

Open homopolymer opened 8 years ago

homopolymer commented 8 years ago

Hi

I am using the standalone RDP classifier to annotate our assemblies. But I find that the RDP nomenclature is different from NCBI nomenclature, such as the NCBI genus Anabaena of phylum Cyanobacteria is named as GpI according to RDP classification. The inconsistence between two nomenclatural systems makes me confuse and cannot determine the identity apparently. Is there any tool can give the mapping between these two nomenclatures?

Thank you very much.

rdpstaffmsu commented 8 years ago

Hi, Feng,

Sorry for the delayed reply! Our taxonomic scheme for Cyanobacteria was derived from the phylogenetic clusters from Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology (2nd ed. Vol. 1: p487-493; 2001). This is due to the lack of formal nomenclatures to many taxa under this phylum, including the genus Anabaena.

RDP has used this system for long and we are currently reviewing it for updating according to currently taxonomic opinions and available sequence data.

Let me know if you have questions.

Sincerely,

Benli Chai RDP Staff

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Feng Zeng notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi

I am using the standalone RDP classifier to annotate our assemblies But I find that the RDP nomenclature is different from NCBI nomenclature, such as the NCBI genus Anabaena of phylum Cyanobacteria is named as GpI according to RDP classification The inconsistence between two nomenclatural systems makes me confuse and cannot determine the identity apparently Is there any tool can give the mapping between these two nomenclatures?

Thank you very much

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