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Accurate and universal delineation of prokaryotic species

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The specI (species identification tool) as mentioned in this paper ) is a method to group organisms into species clusters based on 40 universal, single-copy phylogenetic marker genes, applied to 3,496 prokaryotic genomes, specI identified 1,753 species clusters.
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The exponentially increasing number of sequenced genomes necessitates fast, accurate, universally applicable and automated approaches for the delineation of prokaryotic species. We developed specI (species identification tool; http://www.bork.embl.de/software/specI/), a method to group organisms into species clusters based on 40 universal, single-copy phylogenetic marker genes. Applied to 3,496 prokaryotic genomes, specI identified 1,753 species clusters. Of 314 discrepancies with a widely used taxonomic classification, >62% were resolved by literature support.

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Draft Genome Sequences of Two Potentially Novel Bacillus Isolates from Backyard and Commercial Chicken Gastrointestinal Tracts.

TL;DR: The draft genome sequences of two Bacillus strains isolated in Pomona, California, from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract of backyard and commercial broiler chickens appear to represent novel species.
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Analysis of metagenome-assembled genomes from the mouse gut microbiota reveals distinctive strain-level characteristics

TL;DR: A unique ecosystem in the gut of laboratorial mice that obviously differed with the human gut flora at the strain level was highlighted, which may be beneficial to researches based on laboratorial mouse models.
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Molecular Tools in Microbial Diversity: Functional Assessment Tool for Genomes and Metagenomes, MAPLE System

TL;DR: This chapter provides the methodology for functional genomics and metagenomics to reveal not only species diversity but also the functional diversity of individual microbes and whole microbial communities.
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Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

Robert C. Edgar
- 01 Oct 2010 - 
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TL;DR: BCL3 and Sheehy cite Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology of which systematic bacteriology, first edition, is an expansion.
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RAxML-VI-HPC: maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic analyses with thousands of taxa and mixed models

TL;DR: UNLABELLED RAxML-VI-HPC (randomized axelerated maximum likelihood for high performance computing) is a sequential and parallel program for inference of large phylogenies with maximum likelihood (ML) that has been used to compute ML trees on two of the largest alignments to date.
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Improved tools for biological sequence comparison.

TL;DR: Three computer programs for comparisons of protein and DNA sequences can be used to search sequence data bases, evaluate similarity scores, and identify periodic structures based on local sequence similarity.
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