Using standard keywords in publications to facilitate updates of new fungal taxonomic names

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Schoch, Conrad L.
Aime, M. Catherine
De Beer, Z. Wilhelm
Crous, Pedro W.
Hyde, Kevin D.
Penev, Lyubomir
Seifert, Keith A.
Stadler, Marc
Zhang, Ning
Miller, Andrew N.

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International Mycological Association

Abstract

The combination of manual curation and the reliance on updates from submitters to the public sequence databases is currently inefficient and impedes the comprehensive and timely release of records with new taxonomic names. This should be improved by making several steps during data release more efficient. This article focuses on one such step by proposing a standard way for publications to flag papers with novel taxonomic information. As a result, the potential for automated searches of publication aggregators are improved, as well as the accurate curation of taxonomic information.

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This paper resulted from discussions in Group 5 under the auspices of the International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi (ICTF).

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Data curation, NCBI taxonomy, Novel taxa, Publication standards, Taxonomic information, Accurate curation, Automated searches, Publication aggregators

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Schoch, C.L., Aime, M.C., De Beer, Z.W. et al. 2017, 'Using standard keywords in publications to facilitate updates of new fungal taxonomic names', IMA Fungus, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 70-73.